[Major_Risktaker]

As Bush is determined to give amnesty to millions of others that are in our country illegally, as millions more continue to pour in. While we are left holding the bag.

Woodrow Wilson

Their is not much I like about WW, however he did get the "hyphenated Americans" problem right.

Woodrow Wilson also regarded those whom he termed "hyphenated Americans" (German-Americans, Irish-Americans, etc.) with suspicion:

"Any man who carries a hyphen about with him carries a dagger that he is ready to plunge into the vitals of this Republic whenever he gets ready."

Interesting statement from an American President almost 100 years ago. Why was Wilson's statement used then but not remembered today?

With all of the illegally immigration today
this little booklet needed to be handed
out more.

Property Rights
&
other good things inside.

If not our Founding Father's words will be
forgotten and the agenda of the left would
have won the day.

[Texas Songwriter]

I agree. The whole reason for naturalizing foreigners was to amalgamate them into a "melting pot", not to sift them with a strainer to separate out one group from another. Democrat politicians have played one group against another for generations, and it is given reprisal to the notion of self imposed segregation. I, like many Americans, want to be left alone, but I am an American with loyaties to God, family, country. Not to my Irish or german or native american heritage. I am an American. Wilson was correct about the notion of the hyphenated American.

[Innisfree]

I agree that we ought all be known as just plain Americans. The melting pot may have turned into a salad bowl, but I still value the ideal of assimilation. (In that vein, it would be nice if there were at least one book that all Americans had read---required reading for students, perhaps---as a note of commonality.) I would rather not be asked about my background on standardized forms, but as long as they're asking such questions I prefer to specify my ethnic heritage, rather than be designated by the slightly racist, catchall term, "white".