Leave Your Hyphen at the Border

I'm an American.  That is to say, a citizen of the United States of American.  My father's parents had bits of everything, as did my mother's.  There was a lot of Native American, some Scotch, some Irish.  Who knows what else, because I am an American.
I am not a "native" (so I guess I won't run for the Senate in Massachusetts, huh?) Irish, African, Scottish, Chinese, Mexican, or any other persuasion.  I am an American.  If you fly a tower into our buildings, I will pray for your destruction.
I don't think we need a million different varieties.  I love margaritas as much as anyone on the Fifth of May, but the holiday for our Republic is the Fourth of July, thankyouverymuch.  I also appreciate that on March 17th everyone is Irish-unless of course you are feeling protective of the 3% who are homosexual and can't march in St. Patrick's Day parades.  Then you are just a politically correct idiot.
There are those who celebrate out differences and that is not a bad thing.  But the time comes when you have to either assimilate-that is to say become one of us-or you need to stay where you are.
Dearborn, Michigan take note.
Southwestern border states should be paying attention as well.  Recently a group of illegals who had been brought to the United States as small illegal alien children and had been sent home were at the border, demanding entry into the United States.  Leave your hyphen at the border, and come on in.  If you can assimilate, come on in.  If you are self supporting, come on in.
Did you know that immigrants to the country of Mexico are never eligible for public assistance?  They cannot own property, and they are never given all of the rights of the native born?  Seems like an idea.  Insurance calls that reciprocity.  What ever one states rule is on something, the other state agrees to it.  The United States needs to have a reciprocity policy in place for other countries when it comes to immigration.  If you have skills, come on.  I don't mean domestic help, or landscaping skills, either.
There was a time when we only allowed those with self sufficient skill and ability to come here and stay.  We need to get back to that.  Think about it, you'll thank me later.