Celebrating our homeland

Every Fourth of July, Americans celebrate Independence Day with family gatherings, food and fireworks. All over the country we see everyone, even the most recent immigrants, celebrating this day in similar ways. It makes no difference that they come from very different countries, near and far, and it doesn’t matter how fluidly they speak English or what the color of their skin is.

Beyond the beauty of the fireworks, for those lucky enough to have the day off to celebrate with their families, the Fourth of July represents an opportunity to be part of an activity common to all Americans and those who aspire to become American. In these times, when there is so much talk about immigrants in connection with the debate surrounding immigration reform and the concerns of some leaders involving integration and whether or not immigrants deserve legalization, let’s not forget the principles that this country was founded on.

The Declaration of Independence adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776 includes a section that even today gets quoted a lot in reference to those principles. It goes like this: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Today, as always and more than ever, we must remember those principles. Especially when some congressional leaders are referring to this wave of immigrants who are doing the same thing that many did before them: pursue the promises of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

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