Newt Gingrich says that "you cannot understand America without all the people who came here," which is why the former House speaker is aiming to highlight the immigrants who have made the U.S. a "dramatically better country" with his latest documentary.

"I originally set out with the idea that while people are upset about illegal immigration, there's actually a huge majority — about 73 percent — that favor legal immigration," the Georgia Republican said of "Journey to America."

A 2023 Gallup poll found that 68 percent of Americans surveyed viewed legal immigration as a "good thing" for the country.

The documentary produced and narrated by him and wife Callista Gingrich, which premieres Tuesday on PBS at 10 p.m., features the stories of "nine individuals from diverse backgrounds who pursued the American dream and contributed to the fabric of our nation."

"In a way, all of us have some ties to immigration in our own background. And so we wanted to take some human stories and show you people who had come to America legally, but who, in the process, had made us a dramatically better country," Gingrich, 81, said.

Some of those stories include Hedy Lamarr, the Austrian-born actor who, along........

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