Food for thought

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

Speaking as someone who has followed the laws to become an immigrant, I believe that there has to be some accountability for those that break the law. I did not get any sort of priviledge, I did not come here because I was highly educated and a company sponsored me, I am not extremely wealthy and have a slew of lawyers greasing the skids. I obeyed the laws of the land, and still because I am an immigrant, should something happen and I am charged and convicted of any crimes, I have been "informed" by several pieces of mailed literature that I WILL be exiled back to my home country, never to be allowed back into the US. So why should illegals, who have continually refused to obey this country's laws get a free pass? I agree their flee from poverty may be valid, but if you are going to come to a country and agree to the laws of the land.. then by God follow them.