Our Government: Established as “One nation under God”

The Founding Fathers of our great Nation labored over many issues of the day as they crafted our Constitution. Citizens of the United States were expected to be loyal to our Flag, our Constitution, our unique form of representative government, our language and our culture.

“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 the loyalty to the American people.“

–Theodore Roosevelt 1907

It was never intended for America’s culture to be second to anyone or anything, by subdividing citizenship into categories by lineage or origins (African American, Asian American, Italian American, etc.) we have diluted our history as the “Melting Pot”. American citizens have always been encouraged to celebrate our nation’s diversity and as one have fought for these liberties to be afforded to all legal, American citizens past, present and future generations.

One of the most important responsibilities for our elected officials is to secure and protect our Homeland. The effects of policy decisions and indecision on the part of our elected officials have allowed millions of illegal immigrants* to permeate every segment of our society:

1. Draining on our national and state resources (free health care, food stamps, subsidized housing, impact on our public schools).
2. Increasing crime with the added costs to incarcerate, prosecute, sentence and in some cases deport.
3. Erosion of our language, Constitutional freedoms, and the rule of law.

This all creates a negative impact on what could be argued as the soul of our nation-diversity.

*Illegal Immigration: 1. a foreigner who illegally crossed an international political border by land, water, or air. 2. a foreigner who legally enters a country but overstays his/ her visa.

Immigration: the movement of people to another country, between countries.

Emigration: the act and the phenomenon of leaving one’s native country or region to settle in another.