What thoughtful immigration policy sounds like

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  1. AKS

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    [video=youtube;Ixi9_cciy8w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixi9_cciy8w[/video]
     
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    I can fully endorse this one:

    "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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    Of course all of this is up to Congress.
     
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    Couldn't link to youtube for that quote? JK, I agree with president Roosevelt also. I don't think his sentiment is at odds with Reagan or H.W.
     
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    "if they assimilate" are the key words.

    Are our immigrants doing that?
     
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    Well, Obama's "vetting" involved a questionaire that asked: "Are you a terrorist?" A no answer was sufficient.

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    From the EU experience we know they do not.
     

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