What Theodore Roosevelt Said About Immigrants

Why is it that we have interpreters in our classrooms? Why is it that most if not all Federal, State, County and even some local legal documents are printed in several different languages? Why are we all supposed to be accepting, and in some cases assimilate with foreign nationals or immigrants to their culture and allow head ware in our Legislative Chambers?

Teddy Roosevelt had other ideas about what it means to be an immigrant and the responsibilities of those same immigrants to learn our culture, and assimilate to our way of life, our National Anthem, Our National Flag when he states quite simply that;

Theodore Roosevelt on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN

"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 1907

So instead of follow the guidance of our past president we as a nation have bent over backwards to allow immigrants to run roughshod over us and we have completely ignored our flag, our Constitution, and our past history.

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