True Immigration Can Exist
True Immigration Can Exist
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
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 becomesan American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality witheveryone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, orbirthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet anAmerican, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man whosays he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for butone flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the Englishlanguage.. and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the Americanpeople.'Theodore Roosevelt 1907