The immigrants who built America were legal.
I knew we'd get to this point. Lets start with German fugutive ancestors who broke the law of their German-speaking state by emigrating.
And here are your Puritan New England ancestors, who came here as criminals because of their defiance of the laws concerning religion in England. You might cry "freedom of religion".
But they broke the law. And look – here are your Scotch-Irish and German ancestors who settled in Pennsylvania and North Carolina without getting legal title to their lands. They were all law-breaking squatters, and they kept getting caught farming on other people's land and had to move on.
And look – here are your ancestors who crossed over the Appalachian Mountains like Daniel Boone, into areas that the federal government absolutely declared off-limits to white settlers. Then when the Indians attacked them for illegally trespassing, they demanded that the US Army come and kill Indians so your ancestors could keep their illegally occupied land.
Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and parts of several other states – they were all part of Mexico before America invaded and took that land.
In fact, through most of the territory of the US, the first settlers were illegal immigrants, weren't they? US treaties supersede all other laws except the Constitution. So what about it? Do you favor the expulsion of all these white illegal immigrants to restore the land to the legal titleholders by US treaty?"
We made up these laws. It's not like murder or theft or rape, where one person is infringing the rights of another. We just decided, arbitrarily, which people could come into our country and which could not. Our rules now favored the rich; the poor in other countries are no longer welcome. Yes I recognized something has to be done on securing the southern border but to think we can round up 10-12 million people and throw them back to Mexico would be:
A)-Impossible to find them all and then proccess each individual by law with hearings would flood the judical system...it would take years and Billons of $,and many broken families.
B)-Create more poverty and unemployment to Mexico and and watch sects of the population reach famish purportions.
C)-Adversley devestate portions of our own econmy by banning cheap labor by hard working people.
Hillboy said:
Anyone who supports them supports the decline and decay of America.
Our culture has always tolerated thousands and millions of people who spoke other languages and clung together in memory of the old country. And then, a few generations later, we were all Americans together. Your fear of these immigrants(legal or illegal) merely shows your complete ignorance of American history.
We're all Americans. We changed each other – the Irish, the Italians, the Spanish, the Germans, the Black slaves, the Russian Jews, the Chinese, the Japanese, they all came here and changed the way we talk and think and dress and sing and dance and read and write and it was always still America. Until now. It seems like some of you want to dismantle The Statue of Liberty and send it back to France in a wooden box.
This kind of ties into an email that was going around about the true cost of (farming) tomatoes. As we can see by the website you sent the link to, there are a lot of hidden costs associated with illegal immigration.
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