Journey to America: With Newt and Callista Gingrich

Matt Roush says...

You might be surprised to see conservative figures like the former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and his wife, former Ambassador Callista Gingrich, extolling the histories of renowned U.S. immigrants when the very subject of immigration is such a hot-button topic. Newt explains: “Immigration has become such a loaded political issue that we often lose sight of the fact that, as a country, we’ve significantly benefited from the hard work and creativity of generations of immigrants who legally migrated to our country.” A documentary special two years in the making profiles nine public figures who emigrated to the U.S., including household names like Henry Kissinger, Albert Einstein, and actress/inventor Hedy Lamarr as well as Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred, and Maria Daume, an adopted Russian American who became the first female graduate of the Marine’s School of Infantry.

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