Thread: LOU DOBBS - TEDDY ROOSEVELT ON IMMIGRANTS

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.
--Lou Dobbs

"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, 1919

This should be the standard...but clearly Most Americans know these people they are wanting to give amnesty to are soooooo far off this mark.....IT DEFINATELY ISN'T FUNNY!!!!

OK, time for the usual set of welcome to Alipac links about illegal immigration, immigration, etc: - a varied set of resources on the subject:

Roy Beck's (NumbersUSA) Video presentation on US growth population growth,
due almost entirely to immigration:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... oy+beck&hl

Teddy Roosevelt's famous 'Sole Loyalty/Assimilation of Immigrants' Speech:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/troosevelt.asp

Richard Lamm's Speech on Multiculturalism (and it's implications for
the long-term well being of the US (aka. "How to Destroy America" speech; ie. "Diversity" vs. "Unity")
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/lamm.asp

How do Americans feel about illegal immigration? Here is one answer from
a highly respected and non-partisan polling firm:
www.cis.org/articles/2006/2006poll.html

Sorry for the duplicitous reference to these, but they really are worth a look.