| America's borders, shores and boundaries are under
assault as never before -- not by those seeking to come to America
honorably and honestly, as has always been welcome in this 'melting pot'
of cultures -- but by those who seek to fulfill other agendas.
In the rush to embrace 'globalization' and the erasure of all
borders, those who live along those borders are facing something that no
private property owners ever should: a flood of illegal immigrants and
the myriad difficulties that come with them.
Whether you agree with borders and border patrols (private, state or
Federal), this issue is one that begs your attention. |
| "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...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." - Theodore
Roosevelt, from a letter he wrote to the president of
the American Defense Society on January 3, 1919, three days before
Roosevelt died. "Americanization" was a favorite theme of
Roosevelt's during his later years, when he railed repeatedly against
"hyphenated Americans" and the prospect of a nation
"brought to ruins" by a "tangle of squabbling
nationalities." He advocated the compulsory learning of English by
every naturalized citizen. "Every immigrant who comes here should
be required within five years to learn English or to leave the
country," he said in a statement to the Kansas City Star in
1918. "English should be the only language taught or used in the
public schools." He also insisted, on more than one occasion, that
America has no room for what he called "fifty-fifty
allegiance." In a speech made in 1917 he said, "It is our
boast that we admit the immigrant to full fellowship and equality with
the native-born. In return we demand that he shall share our undivided
allegiance to the one flag which floats over all of us." http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_Roosevelt_on_immigrants.htm |
