| Teddy Roosevelt on Illegal Aliens |
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Teddy Roosevelt knew that America's strength relied upon the innovative and restless minds of all Americans, wedded to the notion that they could throw off the mental shackles of the past, even their distant homelands, to become an Ideal. An American.
Next time you see an illegal protesting new immigration laws while waving a Mexican flag, remember what great old Teddy (Not Kennedy) thought about immigrants.
"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." Every American citizen needs to read this!
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