Don't worry, we didn't just fall off the turnip truck! :)
I know two people (a Kenyan and an Australian) who are trying hard to become Americans- LEGALLY. They're getting shafted by the creeps we've elected.
I heard about somebody from a close ally of the US who got divorced by an American (!) wife and will never see his three (American !) kids again. Divorced fathers and (failed) legal immigrants face double discrimination and no one has them in mind talking of family values. This is a sick society. It is as sick though in Germany.
“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