- The following is one of my favorite thoughts
on the issue of immigration. It's from President Theodore Roosevelt in
a letter to the American Defense Society in 1919, 10 years after his presidency.
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- --Lou Dobbs
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- "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 man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...
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- 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, and this excludes
the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization,
just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are
hostile...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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- --Theodore Roosevelt, 1919
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