I'd have more respect for the President if he'd just be honest about it.
If he were to do that, he would have to immediately take action in the form of real immigration reform and real border security. Something that should have taken place or put into action *before* 911 ever occurred.
The following Teddy Roosevelt quotes can be found in Edmund Morris, The Rise Of Theodore Roosevelt Modern Library 2001)
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism...The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin...would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."
(Speech, New York, 1915)
http://www.presidentlincoln.com/Quote4.html