[StBernard] Year 1907 -- we should have listened

[Westley Annis]

The year is 1907, one hundred years ago.

"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 person's becoming in every facet 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...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's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907


Securing the borders 100 years past. Can't we do it any better?
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