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To: qam1
What's sad is the same thing is happening here and as demographics shift it will only get worse.

President Ronald Reagan had much respect for Calvin Coolidge, another authentic Constitutional Conservative. President Coolidge's address to Congress on December 6, 1923 bears repeating, portions of which are here:

American institutions rest solely on good citizenship. They were created by people who had a background of self-government. New arrivals should be limited to our capacity to absorb them into the ranks of good citizenship. America must be kept American.

For this purpose it is necessary to continue a policy of restricted immigration. It would be well to make such immigration of a selective nature with some inspection at the source, and based either on a prior census or upon the record of naturalization. Either method would insure the admission of those with the largest capacity and best intention of becoming citizens.

Those who do not want to be partakers of the American spirit ought not to settle in America.

28 posted on 02/14/2012 6:59:13 PM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: re_nortex
Just to repeat - should be shouted from the mountaintops, posted on the largest billboards, and spotlighted on the news at 6 and 11:

"Those who do not want to be partakers of the American spirit ought not to settle in America."
34 posted on 02/14/2012 7:11:02 PM PST by Hegemony Cricket (The emperor has no pedigree.)
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To: re_nortex

Yep, Reagan had so much respect for Coolidge that he dis-regarded Coolidge’s advice and liberalized the immigration laws in 1985 after Johnson got it started in 1965.


37 posted on 02/14/2012 7:16:18 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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