Irish leaders claimed naturalized citizens must act exactly like native-born Americans.
Evidence
The duty of naturalized Irishmen or others, I consider to be in no wise distinct or different from those of native born Americans. And if it be proved an attempt has been made by this address, or any other address, to single them out on any question appertaining to the foreign or domestic policy of the United States, in any other capacity than that of the whole population, then it will be their duty to their country and their conscience, to rebuke such an attempt come from what foreign source it may, in the most decided manner and language that common courtesy will permit. — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 62
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Nationalist leaders cynically claimed foreign citizenship when convenient, undercutting their own nationalist stance