Reader Responses

I believe every immigrant who becomes a legal citizen of our great country should be given every privilege that any natural born American is given under the law of the United States.

I also believe every citizen should meet his responsibilities as was stated by Theodore Roosevelt in 1907. I quote:

"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, 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."

Ray Modlin
Tyler