The "Immigration" Debate
An excellent piece is in today's The American Thinker along the lines of Peggy Noonan's outstanding column last week. It postulates that Americans are sick of this raging "immigration" debate. Why? Because it's not about immigration like the cunning liguists on Capitol Hill and the media want everyone to think.
Americans don't have a problem with immigration. How many ways and how many times do we have to say that? Virtually all of us were born of immigrants! We don't have a problem with immigrants. We have a problem with illegal immigrants and specifically the ones who don't want to become Americans like we are Americans.
We just want people who immigrate (legally) to want to be like us....American! If you're going to come here (legally) then leave your country behind and become proud Americans. Wave our flag. Speak our language. Obey our laws. Pay our taxes. Assimilate! Acclulturate! Leave your fatherland behind. You want to be here? Become an AMERICAN!
More and more each day, we're seeing firsthand what is dangerously divisive about the "feel good" multi-cultural programs that pervade government schools. For way too many years learned educrats have thought and taught that we must encourage (illegal and legal) immigrants, as well as minorities, that they should maintain and capitalize upon their homeland customs and traditions.
This is antithetical to the very motto of our country which, if you recall is "E Pluribus Unum" which means "out of many, one." That philosophy has worked well and made us the greatest melting pot that has ever existed. Throughout our history, immigrants came here to become Americans, not Norwegian-Americans, Italian-Americans or African-Americans...just Americans. Hyphenated America doesn't work and I believe the authors of that concept knew that to be true and are happy to see the disunity.
If you emigrate to Japan, you don't become Japanese. If you emigrate to Italy, you don't become Italian. You can emigrate to Viet Nam, but you won't become Vietnamese. But when you immigrate to America, you become an American. That's the way it's been and that's the way it should be.
Leftists hate the American way of life and everything on which this country is founded. Is it any wonder that many of them would attempt to destroy Americana by stressing the importance of "diversity" and "multi-culturalism."
Remember the old idiom, "a house divided cannot stand?" That's exactly what is happening!.
Americans don't have a problem with immigration. How many ways and how many times do we have to say that? Virtually all of us were born of immigrants! We don't have a problem with immigrants. We have a problem with illegal immigrants and specifically the ones who don't want to become Americans like we are Americans.
We just want people who immigrate (legally) to want to be like us....American! If you're going to come here (legally) then leave your country behind and become proud Americans. Wave our flag. Speak our language. Obey our laws. Pay our taxes. Assimilate! Acclulturate! Leave your fatherland behind. You want to be here? Become an AMERICAN!
More and more each day, we're seeing firsthand what is dangerously divisive about the "feel good" multi-cultural programs that pervade government schools. For way too many years learned educrats have thought and taught that we must encourage (illegal and legal) immigrants, as well as minorities, that they should maintain and capitalize upon their homeland customs and traditions.
This is antithetical to the very motto of our country which, if you recall is "E Pluribus Unum" which means "out of many, one." That philosophy has worked well and made us the greatest melting pot that has ever existed. Throughout our history, immigrants came here to become Americans, not Norwegian-Americans, Italian-Americans or African-Americans...just Americans. Hyphenated America doesn't work and I believe the authors of that concept knew that to be true and are happy to see the disunity.
If you emigrate to Japan, you don't become Japanese. If you emigrate to Italy, you don't become Italian. You can emigrate to Viet Nam, but you won't become Vietnamese. But when you immigrate to America, you become an American. That's the way it's been and that's the way it should be.
Leftists hate the American way of life and everything on which this country is founded. Is it any wonder that many of them would attempt to destroy Americana by stressing the importance of "diversity" and "multi-culturalism."
Remember the old idiom, "a house divided cannot stand?" That's exactly what is happening!.
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