| A Quote by Theodore Roosevelt on Immigration in 1907 |
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As the Missouri House debates new immigration laws that will come more in line with Arizona's newly adopted law on immigration, we need to decide if this is the way individually we want to go forward. It is each members right as an American to choose. We all know that like the Health Care Act, something needs to be done. With that thought in mind, I came across a quote from Theodore Roosevelt from 1907. The immigration issue has been haunting us for a very long time, and what ever side of the issue your on, I hope that this quote helps.
Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.
'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 1907
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