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Shouldn't members of Congress love America first? Not if you're a Democrat. | Opinion
Opinion by Ingrid Jacques, USA TODAY • 16h

Like most Americans, my ancestors immigrated to the United States to make a better life for themselves and their future families. Six out of eight of my great-grandparents came from Norway. I grew up very aware of that heritage, with some Norwegian traditions passed down through the generations.
 
Yet, neither my parents – nor my grandparents, who were first-generation Americans – have ever referred to themselves as Norwegian Americans. They are Americans. And they’re proud of it.

This country really is a melting pot of immigrants from all over the world, and that’s part of what makes America unlike any other on earth. The mutual understanding that America is a land of opportunity and that it’s an honor to call it home is what binds citizens together, even if our ancestors came from diverse parts of the globe.

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Of all Americans, you’d think members of Congress would be the first to embrace utmost allegiance to their country. For some Democrats, that’s not the case.

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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

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My opinion only, and you probably won't like it, but I think a Constitutional requirement for the House and the Senate should be that only "natural born" citizens are eligible to hold such offices.

By "natural born" I mean born on American soil to TWO parents who are BOTH citizens (either natural-born themselves or naturalized).

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My opinion only, and you probably won't like it, but I think a Constitutional requirement for the House and the Senate should be that only "natural born" citizens are eligible to hold such offices.

By "natural born" I mean born on American soil to TWO parents who are BOTH citizens (either natural-born themselves or naturalized).


I agree. However, in today's world, even that won't guarantee loyalty to the US.

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Censor her. Maybe she can be expelled... at least make Democrats vote on it.