Mexicans, for political or economic reasons, should be glad to become Americans “Citizens”. These foreigners should be required to forsake their ties to their homeland. If they are set on becoming anything less than citizens they should be required to leave and return to their homeland where they have freedom to celebrate their independence from France. Cinco de Mayo is not really their Independence Day. Their real day of Independence is September 16th. Cinco de Mayo is a Holiday which commemorates the victory of the Mexican Militia over the French Army at The Battle Of Puebla in 1862.Their Cinco de Mayo is of no consequence to American citizens. If th
e immigrants, legal or illegal want to hold on to their Cinco de Mayo and be offended by the American flag then they truly have no interest in truly becoming Americans and leave voluntarily or be deported.
All other immigrants, Italians, Irish, Dutch, et al before them became citizens of the United States and accepted the American flag as their own and swore loyalty to it. As American citizens we celebrate the fourth of July as our independence day. If the Mexican find it in their hearts to cling to Cinco de Mayo as their day of independence and find the American Flag offensive, they don’t belong here. Make me and thousands of other Americans happy by sending them back to the land they hold so sacred and let them try and reclaim it and celebrate all of its holidays there. There is no room here for an alien, legal or not who clings to his “homeland‘s celebrations” and finds the American flag offensive.
I am repeating myself but I would like to end with a quote from Theodore Roosevelt 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
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All other immigrants, Italians, Irish, Dutch, et al before them became citizens of the United States and accepted the American flag as their own and swore loyalty to it. As American citizens we celebrate the fourth of July as our independence day. If the Mexican find it in their hearts to cling to Cinco de Mayo as their day of independence and find the American Flag offensive, they don’t belong here. Make me and thousands of other Americans happy by sending them back to the land they hold so sacred and let them try and reclaim it and celebrate all of its holidays there. There is no room here for an alien, legal or not who clings to his “homeland‘s celebrations” and finds the American flag offensive.
I am repeating myself but I would like to end with a quote from Theodore Roosevelt 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
Para español presione por favor el número uno.
