Immigrant Experience and American Opportunity

Yourself, you are an immigrant. You're s- you're an immigrant in this country.

Yeah.

Uh, did you have a, a, a visceral reaction to what they're doing,

what ISIS is

doing when you see the videos of it?

Well, I tell you, uh, you say that, uh, immigrant--

I'm so proud and happy-

Mm-hmm

... that I was

embraced

by the American people like that.

Mm-hmm.

I mean, imagine I came over here with the age of

twenty-one.

Mm-hmm.

With absolutely nothing.

Mm-hmm.

And then to create a career like that.

Mm-hmm.

I mean, in no other country in the world could you

do that.

Yeah.

Every single thing, if it's my bodybuilding career,

if it's my acting

career, becoming governor, the beautiful family that I've

created, all of this is because of America.

That's true.

And so this is why I'm so, so happy to, to, to see

firsthand that this is the greatest country in the world,

and this is the land of

opportunity.

And I think because I'm such a proud American and a proud immigrant,

who came to America, I was asked to do, uh, on July Fourth,

a big speech.

Mm-hmm.

The keynote speech at Mount Vernon.

Mount, oh.

Where George Washington was laid to rest-

Yeah, mm-hmm

... where he lived and all that, to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth

anniversary of America, the existence of America.

And I will be doing the speech.

They asked me because I'm an immigrant, and we will be-- there will be

seven thousand some people there, and we will be-- there will be people

that will

be sworn in and will become citizens-

Wow.

-that day.

That's great.

So it's really a great, great celebration.

This is what this is all about, is to celebrate people becoming Americans

and

coming to America and, uh, a-and all that.

And so I, I just think the world of the great kind

of, uh, history that we

have with immigrants in America. But the key thing also is,

at the same time,

that we got to do things legal.

Yeah.

That is the important thing, you know?

So it's, we got to do things legal, and those people that

are doing illegal things

in America, and they're the foreigners, they are not smart.

Because when you come to America,

you're a guest-

Mm-hmm

... and you have to behave like a guest.

Like when I go to someone's house,

and I'm a guest, then I will do everything I can,

keep things

clean, and to make my bed, and to do everything that

is the right thing to

do, rather than committing a crime-

Yeah

... or being abusive or something like that.

Yeah.

So that doesn't really work in this country.

So I think the important thing is when you become an immigrant, to

think about, "Okay, I go to America because I want to use

America for the great opportunities that America has in education,

in jobs, creating a family," all of those kind of

things.

Then you have to think about, "Okay, if I get all of those things from America,

then I have to give something back." But you have a responsibility as an

immigrant

to give back to America and to pay back to America and to go

and do

something for your community for no money whatsoever.

Give something back to after school program- -Special Olympics or whatever it

is. Make this country a better place.

Yeah. But Arnold, don-