I wonder who the ‘numerous African-American’s’ are and if African-Americans get their own hyphen, why doesn’t Michelle?

Wanna bet that one of them is none other than our La Shawn Barber? IIRC, no one cultivated her either. It’s just something that naturally goes with being an AMERICAN

Dear Editor,

Your recent printing of an editorial by Suzanne Manneh titled “Immigration debate goes online” is misleading and ignorant to be kind.

This article by Ms. Manneh, is, to be kind, makes several misleading statements, implying either a bias or ignorance or both. It does not take a Ph.D. to know the difference between “anti-immigrant” and “anti-ILLEGAL immigrant,’ but Ms. Manneh, and you, by your willingness to publish this tripe, persist in blurring the difference, making anti ILLEGAL immigrant proponents look like bigots. Nothing could be further from the truth, but truth is not what Ms. Manneh wants to portray.

This country was built on immigrants, and everyone here is an immigrant, but this country, in view of the threats against it, reserves the right that every other country has: to control and scrutinize who enters their country.

Without borders, we have no country. Every country on Earth recognizes this, and the USA should be no different.

Whatever your position on illegal immigration is, do not try to candy coat it by basing your argument on a provable misrepresentation.

“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.” Sound familiar?

For a real reality check, look at the New America Media that Manneh writes for at http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_alt_category.html?category_id=14

Nothing by pro-illegal rubbish.

Has anyone written this Lavirée woman? Anyone heard back from her?

I wrote her last night, fourstingfuror. But, I don’t expect to hear back from her. My guess is that her inbox has been inundated with e-mails about this article.

Where are our professional grievance mongers?

Who will advocate for my little part of fractured, hyphenated-America?

The Pope has already spoken on this issue when he said last year that all Catholics must respect the laws of other countries. But just like with divorce, birth control and abortion, the majority of U.S. Catholics will ignore him on that, too.

You’re wrong, Mister P. This is a political issue that is being pursued by Catholics worldwide, not just within the U.S. Catholic leadership outside the U.S. is advocating a pro-illegal point of view. These third party individuals have no interest in supporting American Catholicism over Mexican Catholicism as a U.S. citizen would. It comes from a genuine desire to help others – but it becomes misguided when looked at through the prism of security and national sovereignty. Frankly, I wish they’d mind their own business and let us handle our own political issues.

Based on everything else you say, I don’t understand why you way I am wrong. I would just have to add they want more catholics in America (to help them have a better life.) Also they have more children as American Catholics are falling down in that department

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic. The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American. There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

For an American citizen to vote as a German-American, an Irish-American, or an English-American, is to be a traitor to American institutions; and those hyphenated Americans who terrorize American politicians by threats of the foreign vote are engaged in treason to the American Republic.

Reference: http://www.rpatrick.com/USA/americanism/