I was a five-year-old.

My parents toldmy father told us that we were going on a long vacation

to a place called Arkansas. It was an adventure.
I thought everyone took vacations by leaving home in a railroad car with sentries,
armed soldiers at both ends of the car, sitting on wooden benches.
And whenever we approached a town, we were forced to draw the curtains, the shade.
We were not supposed to be seen by the people out there.
We thought that was the way things happened.
We saw people crying, you know, and we thought, "Well, why are they crying?
Daddy said we're going on a vacation." So we were innocent children.
(Interview of George Takei)

Japanese Americans concentration camp during Second World War

By Maribel Lucrecia Toro Rojas
School Letters, Fourth year
I
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? 1919?).

Theodore Roosevelt indeed wrote these words, but not in 1907 while he
was still President of the United States. The passages were culled from a letter
he wrote to the president of the American Defense Society on January 3, 1919,
three days before Roosevelt died (Emery, 2016).
Then

you

can

deduce

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immigration

policy

were

considered

immigrants with an American but as long as this should act in good faith and
with loyalty, accepting that there is only one flag and one language: English
America for Americans was other important speech of Theodore
Roosevelt at St. Louis Missouri in May 31, 1916.

In this speech Roosevelt

recognize that America formed a mixture of diverse races or racial origins

we represent many different race strains their ancestors came from distinct
old world nationalities.
Roosevelt believed the American citizens were all people lives in United
State, indifferent

that racial origins, because the strength of the nation was in

the unity of all , regardless of whether they were German, Irish , Danish, French
, Scandinavian , English or another countries of old world.
This thought Roosevelt was born in the context of the First World War ,
where the United States had a policy of neutrality, until the collapse of
Lousitania (1915 ) and Soussex (1916 ) by German submarines, lose lives
many American people in sinking both transatlantic ships

faced both

countries and the United States decides to become part of the war.
The Roosevelt speech was a called all American citizens for to confront
the war theme united, independent the racial origins or their

ancestors,

because they were one people one country, including naturalized immigrants ,
their children and their children's children, who were simply Americans.
Likewise thereby try to avoid persecution of Germans and their
descendants, who lived in the United States, and they had the same feeling of
patriotism that any American citizen Nonimmigrant, except the immigrant who
did not become in good faith an American, because in this cause that
immigrant is out of place" in the United States.
the salvation of our people lies in having a nationalized
and unified America, ready for the tremendous tasks of
both war and peace.
Roosevelt in his speech reaffirms the need for compromise, good faith and
loyalty of immigrants to be considered as Americans; otherwise, it will have no
place in the United States