Posted on 10/01/2015 10:57:16 AM PDT by entropy12
Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.
'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.' Theodore Roosevelt 1907
Welcome home!
From what part of the world is Marathi?
Looks like out of India.
My immigrant ancestors came here from England and Ireland, dirt poor but worked hard, (didn't sit on their a$$es and expect others to support them,) assimilated, insisted on English be spoken- and helped make America the greatest country ever on the face of the planet.
Today's 'immigrants' (mostly dangerous alien invaders) come here expecting welfare and free stuff, won't assimilate, won't learn/speak English, complain and try their best to turn America into the sh*tholes they came from. Most of them HATE us.
I say cut off 'immigration'- most especially Muslims. They are destroying this great nation.
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