there are sports figures, the first generation children of immigrants, lou gehrig, joe dimaggio, hank greenberg, and of course, today we have the immigrants themselves, yao ming, fedorov, wayne gretzkysky, hideki matsui, and arguably the single best athlete of our generation, mariano rivera. [ laughter ] who? the people from boston have spoken. when we consider the role of congress and the executive branch in immigration, it is, of course, important to understand that immigrants and their children -- and when we speak about immigrants, it's almost always important to talk about the first generation, because they are almost always raised in immigrant communities. and indeed, there is a phenomenally wonderful map that the census produced for the 1910 census, which shows county by county the percentage of immigrants and their children across the united states. bright red meant that they were 50% or more immigrant. and of course, not surprisingly, all of new york city, most of new jersey are bright red. but so is virtually all of idaho, all of montana, the dakotas, wisconsin, minnesota. we forget h