Everyone has an idea for immigration - what to demand from them when they get and who should be let in and how many - but it seems that there aren't very many who want those who come here to be Americans and live the life of Americans -
What is so bad about being an American? I love this country - it is the best of all worlds and that is why millions want to come here.
This short paragraph from a true statesman brings clarity to this dilemma.
Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.
But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all.
We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
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