I suppose its a loyalty thing; but I've known of many immigrants who became far more loyal to the US than they were to their former country.

Hell, how many Irish who were in the US for no more than a couple of years joined up to fight in the Civil War?


Also, we had a recent debate about this topic on aa.com when Arnold Shwarzenegger was talking about the posibility of changing this rule.
I believe that "the usual suspects" spewed idiotic childish insults at anyone who sided with Arnie, calling the anti-american, etc. etc.