Lawmakers Push for an Immigration Museum on the National Mall

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

Two congressional lawmakers are expected to introduce legislation Thursday asking for a commission to examine the creation of an immigration museum in Washington D.C.

The legislators, Virginia Rep. Jim Moran, a Democrat, and Tennessee Rep. John Duncan, a Republican, want the museum, tentatively called the National Museum of the American People, to tell the story of immigration to the United States.

In an editorial published Wednesday, Moran said he’d been moved to sponsor the legislation by concerns over the fact that “the last remaining places on the National Mall are becoming filled with museums that deliver stories of a specific ethnic group – like the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the proposed National Museum of the American Latino.”

“This museum, covering accurately and adequately each group’s story in the context of the American experience,” Moran said, “should help stem the trend of groups having their own individual, specific ethnic museums.”

Moran has said the museum should be built without any federal taxpayer funds.

Proponents of the proposal for an immigration museum says more than 130 minority groups support the idea.

But Cid Wilson, a member of the presidential commission that studied the idea for a Latino museum, which would be added to the Smithsonian Institution, said museums have failed to tell the story of Hispanic immigration, their history here, and their role in building the United States.

“To imply that these museums are separatist doesn’t capture the reality that, if anything, it’s inclusive to have a Latino museum,” Wilson said. “The story of Latino immigration and contributions to this country is an American story, and it has not been told.”
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Why not use Ellis Island? It would make a fitting tribute to those who came to this country legally, and would certainly be more diverse than a museum dedicated to one group, which seems to be the real intention here.

[clearvision]

Right now, why anything? How do these congress critters have time/money to deal with anything else than the budget/economy?

[cudjo]

with high unemployment and economy in the cellar why even consider anything like this, I think all of congress has Attention Deficit Disorder, they can't seem to pay any attention to what we need done.