Posted on 07/26/2014 6:22:06 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ditto for me except that it’s Eastern Poland instead of Naples, Italy.
Life’s a b*tch, professor. Go re-read some world history and get a clue, you commie maggot.
There is a big difference between legal immigration and illegal. Open borders have been tried before, didn’t work out so well for the American Indians or Mexico when the opened up TX to all US immigration.
We actually do remember our past, some of us do anyway.
**Our Nation Of Immigrants Forgets Its Past**.
They need to learn English and then take the naturalization test and become legal Americans.
When my grandmother died, about forty years ago, we had to go through her things. Among her treasures we found the book that she had used to study English when she first arrived in this country a century ago.
It was a good country back then.
Correct, those whose family came on the Mayflower look at many as johnny come late-leys who ruined the country. And some of then especially detest the catholics from Ireland and southern Europe. Then there are these descendents of Spanish/Mexican who arrived in what is now the US long before all or many white europeans
The notion of legal versus illegal is a relatively new construct.
Two points:
1. We never admitted all immigrants-those with criminal records, with contagious diseases were not admitted.
2. We did not have a welfare state to speak of in the early 1900’s. I believe it was Milton Friedman who said free immigration and a welfare state were incompatible.
Yes, my ancestors were immigrants, but LEGAL immigrants who stood in line at Ellis Island hoping that they would be found worthy of entering America. They had to pass both a legal inspection and a medical exam before being released to enter the United States and there were strict quotas for admission from individual countries. Even though these requirements were rudimentary, the vast majority of those illegally entering on our southern border would not pass the tests our ancestors had to pass.
A succinct but accurate evaluation!
The writer has crammed just about every irrelevant concept into his article, while ignoring all the factors that completely refute his argument.
For what actually pertains to immigration questions in the reality of 2014, see An American Immigration Policy.
Or consider this answer to former President Bush's 2006 immigration speech: Reply To President Bush.
I am not anti immigrant. Three of my four grandparents were immigrants. They came here in a very different era, when the population was less than a fourth of the present, and everyone was expected to be personally responsible. The present is a sea change from the late 19th Century, and those changes are very very significant, and very pertinent to all of us who wish to maintain the America of the Founding Fathers. Only those who intend us ill, or who have their heads buried in the sand, will ignore the dangers posed by the sort of drivel, offered by the subject writer.
William Flax
My mother's side id a bigger mish-mash, but there is some Cherokee lineage in there, as well as legal immigrants from Ireland who were treated pretty badly.
Are we so terrible for simply wanting current immigrants to also follow the rules?
migrants are not immigrants.
How many of these “poor oppressed children” has the author of this article taken into his/her home?
She was one year old at the time, 1897.It was stamped off every day by the ship's doctor.
Any sign of TB, etc., and she would have remained on the boat for the return trip to England,
How much you want to bet this is just another silver spoon Lefty screaming doctrine for the masses that he himself would never follow in his own life.
His photo is at the link.
I have an idea...go in and occupy those Central American countries, clean them up so that children won’t feel like they have to leave.
Makes a hell of lot more sense than sending our troops halfway around the world to do the bidding of the Saudis.
The key line of the poem written for the Statue of Liberty is NOT merely about the “tired”, “poor” and “hungry”. It ends, for emphasis, with “yearning to be FREE” and last I checked most ILLEGAL immigrants have as much political freedom and human rights IN THEIR DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES as do American citizens and the millions of LEGAL immigrants to America; and therefore the freedoms offered by analogy by the Statue of Liberty are not really talking about MOST illegal migrants.
We aren’t a nation of immigrants, we were founded by Brits rebelling against Britain, and immigration didn’t even kick off until generations after our founding, unfortunately, those immigrants who started coming in the mid 1800s brought their liberalism with them and started voting, and they vote the same today.
640 acres and a mule, now it is EBT cards, big difference.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.