Do you understand the difficulties the Tamils face in the northern part of the country and the fact that they can come here, and choose to come here, across an ocean, in spite of great risk to themselves, even when they understand that the principles we would set in place in this bill still provide a much better life for them in the long run than what they would have had prior to three years ago, to the end of the civil war?
On May 1st, 2012. See this statement in context.