An Hispanic-American cannot unite the country. And neither can an Italian-American, a Polish-American, or whatever. Only an American can unite America. Your ancestors’ nationality should be important only once a year at the local nationality picnic, and that’s about it.
“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americans…The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of it continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.”
Teddy Roosevelt