Upfront:
Impact of Illegal Immigration
The Left Loves Criminals - By Gary Bauer - ...The socialists and
neo-Marxists who control today’s Democrat Party continue to fall on their swords
for all the wrong people. ...The Left takes giants like George Washington and
Thomas Jefferson and turns them into despicable monsters, while they turn
“Maryland Man” Kilmar Abrego Garcia and others like him into heroes.
Fast
Facts - Federation for American Immigration Reform
o Limited English Proficiency (LEP) students cost taxpayers approximately $60
billion annually.
o According to a 2018 Center for Immigration Studies analysis, in 2014, 63
percent of households headed by a non-citizen reported that they used at least
one welfare program, compared to 35 percent of native-headed households.
o In addition, compared to native households, non-citizen households have much
higher use of food programs (45 percent vs. 21 percent for natives) and Medicaid
(50 percent vs. 23 percent for natives).
o There are currently an estimated 4.8 million American-born children of illegal
aliens in the U.S. Because of our erroneous interpretation of the Fourteenth
Amendment, they all received automatic birthright U.S. citizenship.
o Mass immigration is not a panacea to save Social Security. Because of “chain
migration,” immigrants can sponsor numerous relatives, some of whom are already
elderly. In addition, immigrants grow older just like Americans do. Rather than
rejuvenating our workforce, mass immigration and “chain migration” are more
likely to further overburden the system.
Crime Rate for Illegal Aliens Vastly Understated, Data Shows - By
John R Lott Jr. | November
25, 2024. - ...Professor Mark Cohen at Vanderbilt University, who co-authored
the original National Institute of Justice report, updated
the list with 15 of the crime categories reported by ICE: murder, sexual
assault, sexual offenses, robbery, assault, arson, burglary, larceny, motor
vehicle theft, weapon offenses, drugs, fraud, liquor offenses, gambling, and
stolen property. Cohen’s updated numbers also provide estimates for the damage
from child abuse, drunk driving, and vandalism, but ICE didn’t collect numbers
on those crimes.
The National Institute of Justice’s estimated
losses from crime victimization include medical care/ambulances, mental health
care, police/fire service costs, social/victim services, property loss/damage,
reduced productivity (at work, home, and school), and nonmonetary losses (fear,
pain, suffering, and lost quality of life).
Murders account for almost $153.8 billion of
the $166.5 billion in estimated criminal victimization costs (a breakdown of the
costs of crime for each type of crime is available
here). Another $6 billion involves sexual assaults/offenses, and an
additional $5.2 billion comes from sexual assaults and sexual offenses. Half of
the crimes these nondetained individuals commit don’t have cost estimates. These
crimes include kidnapping, embezzlement, extortion, smuggling, traffic offenses,
and weapon offenses.
Borders, Wall
& Sanctuary Cities? Biblical & Constitutional
Premise
The
Biblical precept that sovereign nations have boundaries, dictate
permission to enter, to righteously protect and defend that nation's
inhabitants, for the same reason personal property has boundaries, as the walls
and fences around the properties of Soros & Pelosi do.
(Acts 17:26 One New Man Bible) "From one man He made every nation
of men to settle upon all the face of the earth, after He determined fixed times
and the boundaries of their habitations."
Numbers 20:14-21 reveals Moses honoring the boundaries of the king
of Edom. (One New Man Bible) - And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king
of Edom, Thus says your brother Israel, "You know all the trouble that has
befallen us, how our fathers went down into Egypt and we lived in Egypt a long
time and the Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers. And when we cried to the
LORD*, He heard our voice and sent an angel, and has brought us forth out of
Egypt and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the outermost of your border. Let
us pass, I pray you, through your country. We will not pass through the fields,
or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells. We
will go by the king's highway, we will not turn to the right hand or to the left
until we have passed your borders." And Edom said to him, "You will not pass by
me, or I shall come out against you with the sword." And the children of Israel
said to him, "We will go by the highway, and if I and my cattle drink of your
water, then I shall pay for it: I shall only go through on my feet without doing
anything else." And he said, "You will not go through." And Edom came out
against him with many people and with a strong hand. Thus Edom refused to give
Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.
America’s Founders Didn’t Support Open Borders, And Neither Should We
- By: Helen Raleigh - From the very beginning, even in the absence of
immigration law, the founders knew America had to set boundaries. Their top
three concerns were the qualifications, assimilation, and allegiance of
newcomers. The founders emphasized the moral character and contributions
newcomers would bring. Not only should new migrants have good moral character,
but they should also
place “high importance to the respectability and character of the American
name” and
do their best to “preserve its good fame from injury,” as Rep. James
Jackson, a Democratic-Republican from Georgia, said in 1790. The founding
generation didn’t want
convicts and criminals as new immigrants. ...George Washington expressed a
similar concern: that immigration does not benefit America when immigrants
congregate and “retain their language, habits and principles (good or bad) which
they bring with them.” Instead, he firmly believed that new immigrants or their
descendants should, “by an intermixture with our people … get assimilated to our
customs, measures and laws: in a word, soon become one people.”
...Assimilation Strengthens and Protects: The United States was founded
upon specific ideas and moral principles, as expressed by the eloquent words of
the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson
believed that “it is for the happiness of those united in society to
harmonize as much as possible in matters which they must of necessity transact
together.” He
feared
that if new immigrants believed different ideas, then “with their language, they
will transmit [them] to their children. In proportion to their numbers, they
will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp
and bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted
mass.”
...Immigrants Must Pledge Allegiance: No matter what drives them
to America, some immigrants retain residual loyalty to their countries and
cultures of birth. To become Americans, the founders believed immigrants needed
to give up prior allegiances and pledge an oath of fidelity to the U.S. In
Alexander Hamilton’s words: "The safety of a republic depends essentially
on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and
habits; on the exemption of citizens from foreign bias and prejudice; and on the
love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected
with birth, education, and family." (See
Foundation below for Founder's quotes and
more.)
2009 Video of Chuck Schumer DESTROYED Democrats
Credibility on Border Wall ...Chuck Schumer in
2009:
o Americans don't like illegal immigration
o "Illegal immigration is
wrong"
o People illegally in the U.S. are "illegal aliens," not "undocumented" -Border
fence made the southern border "far more secure...created a significant barrier
to illegal immigration"
o ...He continued: "People who enter the United States without our permission are
illegal aliens, and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who
entered the United States legally. Any immigration solution must recognize that
we must do as much as we can to gain operational control of our borders as soon
as possible."
o ...But here's the kicker: Schumer also said the construction of a border wall
represented a "significant barrier to illegal immigration."
o ..."The American people need to know that, because of our efforts in Congress,
our border is far more secure today than it was when we began debating
comprehensive immigration reform in 2005," Schumer said. He added: "This
progress includes construction of 630 miles of border fence that create a
significant barrier to illegal immigration on our southern land border."
March 2023:
House Dems Skip On-Site Border Meeting Labeling it “a political stunt”
-By Douglas Andrews - ...House Democrats on the Homeland Security Committee
abdicated their constitutional responsibility. ..What the cartels do is when
they sneak people in, they put them in stash houses," said Tennessee Republican
Congressman Mark Green after a recent trip to the border with House GOP
freshmen. "And then to pay the cartel back, those people have to commit crimes
in the United States — basically sell or traffic drugs or people. Well, if you
refuse to do that, you wind up dead. And this one woman did, and she was raped,
scalped, and dropped at an elementary school in the United States." So the
border crisis isn't just about the 5.6 million illegals we've encountered at our
southern border during Joe Biden's disastrous tenure, or the 1.1 million
additional border crossers who got away without being apprehended. ...Article 4,
Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution states, "The United States shall guarantee to
every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect
each of them against Invasion."
"Build a wall."
(Charles Krauthammer for PragerU)
Democrats dismiss the idea as
wasteful, crude, and even racist. But in the real world, it's the necessary
first step to solving America's illegal immigration problem. In this new video,
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Charles Krauthammer explains why building a
wall, while not the entire solution, must be done before we can talk about
anything else. Click
here
to watch the video.
Transcript: Every sensible immigration policy has two
objectives: 1) to regain control of our borders so that we decide who enters;
and 2) to find a humane way to deal with the 11 million illegal immigrants who
now live among us. Start with the second. For both practical and moral reasons,
America cannot and will not and should not expel 11 million people. That
leaves us with two choices: ignore them or figure out a way to legalize them.
Ignoring them hasn't worked. But there is also a huge problem with legalization:
it creates an irresistible incentive for new illegal immigrants to come.
We say, of course, that this will be the very last, very final,
never-again, we're-not-kidding-this-time amnesty. And everyone knows it's phony.
That's what was said in 1986, when we passed the Simpson-Mazzoli immigration
reform. It turned out to be the largest legalization program in American history
-- nearly 3 million people got permanent residency. There was no enforcement. We
now have 11 million new illegal immigrants in our midst. The irony of this whole
debate, which bitterly splits the country, is that there is a silver bullet that
would not just solve the problem, but also create a national consensus behind
it.
A vast number of Americans who oppose legalization and fear new
waves of immigration would change their minds if we could radically reduce new
-- i.e., future -- illegal immigration. And we can. First, build a barrier. Call
it a wall. Call it a fence. Call it what you will. Add cameras and sensors. Add
drones. Beef up the patrols. All that matters is that we regain control of the
border. Fences work. The triple fence outside San Diego led to a 90 percent
reduction in infiltration. Israel's border fence with the West Bank produced a
similar decline. Even holier-than-thou Europeans have conceded the point:
Hungary, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Austria, Greece, Spain, why, even Norway -- have
all started building border fences to stem the tide of Middle Eastern refugees.
Then enforce two other measures: a national E-Verify system that
makes it just about impossible to work if you are here illegally, and a
functioning visa tracking system, since 40% of illegal immigrants are visa
overstays. The wall/fence will, of course, be ugly. So are the concrete barriers
to keep truck bombs from driving into the White House. Sometimes function has to
supersede form. And don't tell me that this is our Berlin Wall. When you build a
wall to keep people in, that's a prison. When you build a wall to keep people
out, that's an expression of sovereignty.
Of course, no barrier will be foolproof. But it doesn't have to be.
It simply has to reduce the river to a manageable trickle. Once we do,
everything becomes possible -- including dealing with our 11 million illegal immigrants. So, let's fix that. Track the visas, do E-Verify, build the damn
barrier. It's ridiculous to say that it can't be done. And who would certify
that the border is back in our control? I would have a neutral party, perhaps a
commission of retired jurists, issue the judgment. Once they do, we legalize the
11 million, granting them the right to stay and work here.
We can't give them citizenship. That's a bridge too far. You don't get to join
the political destiny of the country by entering it illegally. But any children
born here would be American -- which means that over time the issue resolves
itself.
The American people are legitimately angry at the price American
society has paid due to illegal immigration. But they are also a generous
people. Once they are assured that we do indeed control our borders, that anger
will abate. A national consensus will emerge. Radical border control, followed
by radical legalization. No mushy compromise. A solution requires two acts of
national will: putting up a wall (along with E-Verify and visa tracking) and
absorbing those who broke our laws to come to America.
This is not a compromise meant to appease both sides without
achieving anything. It's not some piece of hybrid legislation that arbitrarily
divides illegals into those with five-year-old "roots" in America and those
without, or some such mischief-making nonsense. If we do it right, not only
will we solve the problem, we will get it done as one nation.
George Washington, The Constitution & Sanctuary States
- By
Terry Oxley - In 1783 at the end of George Washington’s tenure as Commander and
Chief of the Continental Army, he penned a letter to the governors of each of
the States. It was 7 years after the Declaration of Independence and the
thirteen former colonies remained organized under the Articles of Confederation,
the nation’s first frame of government. Washington’s letter gives every
indication he was looking forward to retirement at his Mt. Vernon home with no
thought of further service as the first American President. Well, let us start
with Washington’s excerpt below which outlines how unified states must govern.
“That it is indispensable to
the happiness of the individual states that there should be lodged somewhere a
supreme power to regulate and govern the general concerns of the confederated
republic, without which the Union cannot be of long duration. That there must be
a faithful and pointed compliance, on the part of every state, with the late
proposals of and demands of Congress, or the most fatal consequences will ensue;
that whatever measures have a tendency to dissolve the Union, or contribute to
violate or lessen the sovereign authority, ought to be considered as hostile to
the liberty and independency of America, and the authors of them treated
accordingly.”
Operation
Wetback' deported 1 million illegals with only 750 agents - By
Ed Straker -
President Eisenhower, however, deported a million alone in the space of a year,
and with only 750 deportation agents, in an operation with a name we would never
use today:
Operation Wetback. Some 750 agents swept northward through agricultural
areas with a goal of 1,000 apprehensions a day. By the end of July, over 50,000
aliens were caught... Another 488,000, fearing arrest, had fled the country. By
September, 80,000 had been taken into custody in Texas, and an estimated 500,000
to 700,000 illegals had left the Lone Star State voluntarily. Unlike today,
Mexicans caught in the roundup were not simply released at the border, where
they could easily reenter the US. To discourage their return, Swing arranged for
buses and trains to take many aliens deep within Mexico before being set free.
Tens of thousands more were put aboard two hired ships, the Emancipation and the
Mercurio. The ships ferried the aliens from Port Isabel, Texas, to Vera Cruz,
Mexico, more than 500 miles south. The sea voyage was "a rough trip, and they
did not like it," says Don Coppock, who worked his way up from Border Patrolman
in 1941 to eventually head the Border Patrol from 1960 to 1973.
How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from
Mexicospan - By John Dillin - As many as 3
million illegal migrants had walked and waded northward over a period of several
years for jobs in California, Arizona, Texas, and points beyond. President
Eisenhower cut off this illegal traffic. He did it quickly and decisively with
only 1,075 United States Border Patrol agents, less than one-tenth of today's
force. The operation is still highly praised among veterans of the Border
Patrol.
Foundation
"On every question of construction, let
us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect
the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be
squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in
which it was passed." --Thomas
Jefferson
“The first and governing maxim in the
interpretation of a statute is to discover the meaning of those who made it.” —James
Wilson (1790)
14th Amendment - Section 1: All persons born or naturalized
in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens
of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall
make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of
citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any
person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
"Anchor
babies?"
The man who authored the amendment in 1866, Michigan Sen. Jacob M. Howard
explained exactly what the scope of the law was, that it was referring to
granting citizenship to the recently freed slaves only, not foreigners or
even Native Americans. Howard wrote, "that every person born within the
limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue
of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States." ..."This
will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are
foreigners, aliens..." The 14th Amendment was created to confer citizenship
upon only the former slaves who had recently been freed during the Civil
War. It was not intended to be make a citizen of any person who just
so happened to be born on U.S. soil to foreign parents in the country,
legally or otherwise.
Trump Can End Universal Birthright Citizenship. The Constitution Never
Required It. - By Amy Swearer - ...Supporters of birthright
citizenship ignore the second, critical condition in the amendment of being
“subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States. ...The government today
doesn’t need to amend the Constitution to
restrict citizenship for the U.S.-born children of illegal or nonimmigrant
aliens. It can just simply stop abiding by a broad policy of universal
birthright citizenship that the Constitution never required in the first place.
...Congress drafted and passed the 14th
Amendment, which was subsequently ratified, primarily to strengthen the
protections of the Civil Rights Act by writing them into the Constitution
itself. Under the 14th Amendment, citizenship belongs to “all persons born … in
the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
...Sen. Lyman Trumbull, R-Ill., a key
figure in the adoption of the 14th Amendment, said that “subject to the
jurisdiction” meant not owing allegiance to any other country. ...For example,
few people seriously argue that the citizenship clause applies to Native
Americans who are born subject to the jurisdiction of their tribal governments.
Though born “in the United States,” their allegiance is divided between the
United States and their tribal governments, which were (and still are)
considered “quasi-foreign nations.” ...The U.S. citizenship of American Indians
comes not through the 14th Amendment, but through the Indian Citizenship Act of
1924.
...In plain language, the holding of
that case only applies to the children of permanent, resident aliens, and cannot
be used to justify any claim that it extends citizenship to the children of
aliens illegally present or temporarily here legally.
Consequences of misinterpreting the 14th Amendment to the United States
Constitutionpan> - Births to illegal alien mothers are adding more
to the U.S. population each year than did immigration from all sources in an
average year prior to 1965.
Theodore Roosevelt
- "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."
George Washington
,
Farewell Address, 1796 - "Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that
country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which
belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of
Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations."
George Washington
-
"[T]he policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a
body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for, by so
doing, they retain the Language, habits and principles (good or bad) which they
bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they, or their
descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures and laws: in a word, soon
become one people." ..."You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life,
and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ."
(letter to John Adams, 15 November 1794) Reference: The Writings of George
Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799, Fitzpatrick, Ed.,
vol. 34
George Washington
- The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent
and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and
religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and
privileges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the
enjoyment." --Address to the Members of the Volunteer
Association of Ireland, 1783 -The Patriot Post
Founders' Quote Daily
Thomas Jefferson
-
"Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in
this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society,
conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules. That these
rules shall be as equal as prudential considerations will admit, will certainly
be the aim of our legislatures, general and particular." --letter to Hugh White, 1801
Benjamin
Franklin, Those Who Would Remove to America, 1784 -
"Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them
all, and therefore the old inhabitants are not jealous of them; the laws protect
them sufficiently so that they have no need of the patronage of great men; and
every one will enjoy securely the profits of his industry. But if he does not
bring a fortune with him, he must work and be industrious to live."
Calvin
Coolidge - "Those who do not want to be partakers of the American spirit ought not to
settle in America."
Random Thoughts By
Thomas Sowell
-
Of all the arguments for giving amnesty to illegal immigrants, the most
foolish is the argument that we can't find and expel all of them. There is
not a law on the books that someone has not violated, including laws against
murder, and we certainly have not found and prosecuted all the violators --
whether murderers or traffic law violators. But do we then legalize all the
illegalities we haven't been able to detect and prosecute?
Milton Friedman on Illegal Immigration PT 1 (5m28s) --
Milton Friedman on Illegal Immigration PT 2 (3m18s) (2 of 2) Professor Friedman
fields a question on the dynamics of illegal immigration.
Resources & Action
NumbersUSA.com
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Illegal Immigration: Fixing the Entire System - By
Israel Ortega / September
10, 2011 (The Daily Signal)
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Center for Migration Studies
(CMS) a think tank and an educational institute devoted to the study of
international migration, to the promotion of understanding between immigrants
and receiving communities, and to public policies that safeguard the dignity and
rights of migrants, refugees and newcomers.
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Center for Immigration Studies an
independent, non-partisan, non-profit research organization founded in 1985.
It is the nation's only think tank devoted exclusively to research and
policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal, and other
impacts of immigration on the United States.
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NumbersUSA
is committed to accuracy and context in the use of statistics about U.S.
population growth and its causes. We follow a philosophy of avoiding
projections based on the lower or higher extremes of possibility as well as
extreme interpretations. We feel this address to the Population Association
of America advances some ideas worth keeping in mind. Provides
free fax service
to Congress on specified bills and petitions.
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U.S.ENGLISH, Inc. Making
English the official language. The nation's oldest, largest citizens, action
group dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in
the United States. Founded in 1983 by the late Senator S.I. Hayakawa, an
immigrant himself, U.S. English now has more than 2 million members
nationwide.
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The U.S.ENGLISH Foundation is a
nonpartisan, Washington, D.C.-based 501 (c)(3) educational foundation that
disseminates information on English teaching methods, sponsors educational
programs, develops English instructional materials, represents the interests
of Official English advocates before state and federal courts and promotes
opportunities for people living in the United States to learn English.
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U.S. Border
Control - Although the Border Patrol has changed dramatically since its
inception in 1924, its overall mission remains unchanged: to detect and
prevent the illegal entry of aliens into the United States. Together with
other law enforcement officers, the Border Patrol helps maintain borders
that work, facilitating the flow of legal immigration and goods while
preventing the illegal trafficking of people and contraband. The Border
Patrol is specifically responsible for patrolling the 6,000 miles of Mexican
and Canadian international land borders and 2,000 miles of coastal waters
surrounding the Florida Peninsula and the island of Puerto Rico.
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Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI)
serves as a public-interest legal education and advocacy law firm, and
supporting organization of the Federation for American Immigration Reform
(FAIR). Our Mission IRLI exists to defend the rights of individual Americans
and their local communities from the harms and challenges posed by mass
migration to the United States, both lawful and unlawful, to monitor and
hold accountable federal, state, or local government officials who
undermine, fail to respect, or comply with our national immigration and
citizenship laws, and to provide expert immigration-related legal advice,
training, and resources to public officials, the legal community, and the
general public.
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Federation for American
Immigration Reform (FAIR) When
Congress passed Section 245(i) for illegal alien amnesty, they ignored a
loophole which FAIR
identified and exposed which allows deportable aliens with ties to terrorist
organizations to still be able to obtain green cards. Visit
FAIR for an in-depth
report on the impact of immigration in your state.
Americans for Legal Immigration
Immigrating to The United States in the Modern Era
The Naturalization Process and Current Immigration Trends in Immigration the
United States: By State and By Metropolitan Area The naturalization process
is one by which legal permanent residents obtain U.S. citizenship after
fulfilling the requirements established by Congress in the Immigration and
Nationality Act (INA). Once a foreign-born citizen becomes a U.S. citizen, they
enjoy nearly all the same benefits, rights and responsibilities that the
Constitution gives to native-born U.S. citizens, including the right to vote.
Wisdom Quotes
Patrick Henry
- "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great
nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions,
but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity,
and freedom of worship here."
George Washington - "The bosom of America is open to receive not only
the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all
Nations and Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our
rights and privileges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to
merit the enjoyment."
"Citizens by birth or choice of a common country,
that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American,
which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just
pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local
discriminations."
Theodore Roosevelt -
"The one absolute way of bringing this nation to ruin, or preventing all
possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to
become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. we have but one flag.
We must
also learn one language and that language is English."
Theodore
Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1919: "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 is
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, railed repeatedly against "hyphenated Americans"
and the prospect of a nation "brought to ruins" by a "tangle of squabbling
nationalities."
In a statement to the Kansas City Star in 1918:
"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years
to learn English or to leave the country, English should be the only language
taught or used in the public schools." He also insisted that America has no room for what he called
"fifty-fifty allegiance." In a 1917 speech said,
"It is
our boast that we admit the immigrant to full fellowship and equality with the
native-born. In return we demand that he shall share our undivided allegiance to
the one flag which floats over all of us."
Calvin Coolidge - "Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It
is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest degree, but solely for
the purpose of protecting ourselves. We cast no aspersions on any race or
creed, but we must remember that every object of our institutions of society
and government will fail unless America be kept American.
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 lie 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. I am convinced that
our present economic and social conditions warrant a limitation of those to be
admitted. We should find additional safety in a law requiring the immediate
registration of all aliens. Those who do not want to be partakers of the
American spirit ought not to settle in America."
"Settlers came here from mixed motives...Generally
defined, they were seeking a broader freedom. They were intent upon establishing
a Christian commonwealth in accordance to the principle of self-government...It
has been said that God sifted the nations that He might send choice grain into
the wilderness." ..."They had a genius for organized society on the
foundations of piety, righteousness, liberty, and obedience of the law...Who
can fail to see in it the hand of destiny? Who can doubt that it has been guided
by a Divine Providence?"
President Calvin Coolidge - Memorial Day Address, MAY 31, 1923
John F. Kennedy
- "Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens
who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation
of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to
consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom."
Michael
Reagan - "We are really enabling immigrants to avoid
learning English and assimilating into our culture because we give them
everything they need so they don't have to learn to speak English or become part
of the traditional melting pot. By enabling these people, we build an enclave
for them that looks like the one they ran away from at home..."
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