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Colorado Voters, Like Arizonans, Favor Tougher Immigration Policy

By: Les Carpenter III Rational Nation USA A Rasmussen poll out Saturday shows that fifty five percent of Colorado voters favor a law like the one just adopted by  the state of Arizona. This should come as no surprise to thoughtful and thinking individuals that have refused to drink the progressive/socialist tea. Nationally the number of voters that favor a Arizona style law is at fifty nine percent which remained unchanged from a week earlier . The protest rallies in opposition to Arizona's law had little to no effect on majority opinion in America. The poll also identified that fifty nine percent of voters in Colorado are supportive of a welcoming immigration policy that excludes "national security threats, criminals and those who would come here to live off our welfare system."  Twenty five percent of voters however are opposed to immigration policy with that go...

Theodore Roosevelt on Immigration 1907

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By: Les Carpenter III Rational Nation USA President Theodore Roosevelt, America's first truly progressive president was a supporter of immigration. He was a fair man who believed discrimination of any kind was an outrage. I received an e-mail correspondence, presumably on the heels of my multiple posts on Arizona Senate Bill 1070, and stance on immigration. The e-mail attributed the words to Resident Roosevelt in 1907. A quick check with Snopes verified the accuracy. I present them here for my readership. "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American who assimilates 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 ...