But when you look at three year increments, that 850,000 over the last three years is the most people that we have taken in, as far as I can tell, in this country's history. When I was growing up, the number of naturalized people every year was about 200,000. We're now over four times that amount. Nevertheless, there are people who are going to go out there to try to divide us, who say that we're not letting people come here from abroad, that we're being cruel. (07:28–07:37)
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Asserts that the current number of naturalized citizens annually is over four times the number from his youth.
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