[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 19208-19209]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   ``I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO MEXICO''?

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, Federal judges have been trying to rip the 
Pledge of Allegiance out of our schools and have prevented it from 
being recited by school kids in nine States. Now our pledge is under 
siege again. Our kids are being intimidated into pledging allegiance to 
a foreign flag.
  Velasco Elementary in Texas celebrated Mexican Independence Day by 
handing out small Mexican flags and making children as young as pre-
kindergarten stand as parents recited the Mexican pledge in Spanish. 
That pledge honors the heroes of Mexico, promising always to be 
faithful and dedicate loyalty to that nation.
  Pledging allegiance to a foreign flag is un-American. The principal 
of the school, Sam Williams, justified reciting the pledge meekly by 
saying,

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``Well, we want to be diverse at our school.''
  There is only one flag our children should uphold and hold. There is 
only one pledge that they should recite. The Mexican Government and 
illegals may have their sights on retaking the Southwest, but we will 
not hand it over to them one student at a time. In the words of the 
Texans who fought originally for Mexican independence, you'll have to 
``come and take it.'' Our loyalty is to America, not to Mexico.
  And that's just the way it is.

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