professor finkelman: please do. i knew you would. she practices immigration law so i defer to her. >> a naturalized citizen has the same rights as a person born. the only issue is that the government can ring a federal -- can bring a federal suit to take this citizenship away if it is obtained illegally. but the government carries the burden of proof, so you are right. it very rarely happens. most of the time, we see the nazis being deported and having their citizenship taken away. anyway, that is the story. professor finkelman: no, that is fine. that of course is a difference. we could have two individuals, one of whom is an american who went somewhere and became a war criminal and the other is a war criminal and they both come back to the united states and the foreign-born war criminal becomes a citizen -- war criminal becomes a citizen and can lose his citizenship. the american war criminal cannot. >> yes. they can't. but you know, to really go off the reservation, it has been kind of interesting to watch after 9/11 how some u.s.

. >> again, for those of you who are just joining us, my name is paul finkelman. and it's a great pleasure to be here tooped work with the capital historical society put together this symposium which i hope it's a very historic room. ere have beener numb -- been enumerably hearings here. the investigation of the sinking of the titanic took place in this room afpbled probably for most of us is the -- this is the room with the water gate hearings took place as well. -- water gait hearings took place as well. -- it is now called the kennedy clock in honor of the three senators, kennedy from massachusetts all of whom were drobs. professorpeaker was a at howard law school. she did her under graduate dling degree in austin. she played two majors. she went on to michigan law school and get a masters of law, georgetown university and she teaches immigration law here in washington at howard. .his is our local affiliation >> thank you. and good afternoon. i've been marveling at being in this room. dr. finkelman talking about what has happened in this room and how historical

finkelman. paul and i have been friends for many years and currently are collaborating on a number of of which this is a particularly important one. it is a special honor for me to be here and have an opportunity to share my thoughts about one of this country's most political -- important political issues. it affects the lives of millions of people in this country and around the world, which is the issue of immigration. i would like to read it in a contextger complex -- that immigration has played a historically human -- important human -- role in human history. the movement of indigenous people to the western hemisphere, the celts into europe, movement of central asians into india are all typical of our migratory species. surprisingly, there are a number of competing theories from economic client-based which has helped to explain the mass movement of entire peoples within various regions, nations, and continents. immigration, sanctuary, diaspora, and rescue operations present numerous challenge

especially the wonderful staff in the chair of the symposium, my friend paul finkelman. paul and i heard, have been friends for many years and are collaborating on a number of projects of which this is a particularly important one to me. it is a special honor for me to be here and have an opportunity to share my thoughts about one of this country's most important anitical and policy issues, issue that affects the lives of millions of people every day in this country and around the world, which is of course the issue of immigration. i would also like to read it in a larger context in that migration and more specifically, immigration has played a consistently important role with human history since our species first emerged in africa over 200,000 years ago. the movement of indigenous people into the western hemisphere, the possible movement of central asians into europe are typical of our migratory species. there are a number of competing theories from economic, climate-based which has helped to explain the mass movements of entire peoples within and among various nations,

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professor finkelman's relatives came here for that reason. really searchot of have any refugee policy until after world war ii, when of course, we have discussed there were lots of displaced people in europe. not only people who had survived the camps and the holocaust, but also people fleeing what was rapidly becoming the iron curtain. europe was built with people who home not go to their country or did not desire to go back to their home country. 1951 u.n. refugee convention hcr, which still exists. it was charged with resettling in taking care of what the u.s. does call or did call a displaced person. there was a lot of resistance to this in the united states. the united states did not ratify the treaty. was a displaced persons act passed in 1948 which would allow some people to come into the united states, and that of course, we have the immigration and nationality act passed in 1952, which is still our basic the laws after that are amendments to that law. there are no provisions for asylum in that act. s used 1980, the president their ex