Posted on 09/24/2016 8:10:46 AM PDT by truthfinder9
The United Sates was founded by immigrants. Generation after generation of immigrants came here to escape oppression, war, violence and to seek a better life. Both those immigrants, and the citizens that live here, don’t want the evils and problems that they left behind to follow them here. The laws of our nation have kept those concerns at bay.
Yet now, politicians who only care about clinging to power and making a name for themselves (from both parties, by the way), seem to show little concern who is entering the country.
If you want border control or background checks, you’re called anti-immigrant. If you oppose en masse amnesty to illegals, you’re a racist. If you don’t support unlimited refuge to hordes of people, you aren’t humane.
If you believe any of these things, see how being humane is working out for Europe here, here or here.
Violence. Rape. Terrorism. Cover-up.
(Excerpt) Read more at darrickdean.com ...
My family’s ancestors were not immigrants. They were settlers, homesteading in a virgin land were there were no other inhabitants, no law and no government.
They settled on the eastern shore of MD in the mid 1600s. The land where they settled was known as “World’s End” a title that continues to be true to this day. It is a mosquito infested swamp with fewer inhabitants today than when my ancestors settled there.
I see where you’re coming from. Is it incorrect to say America was founded by immigrants? I’d think it was founded by colonists. Would the first immigrants (notwithstanding the native American’s viewing of colonists as immigrants) those people who came here after the nation’s founding? All else being colonists?
So called “native Americans” did not view early settlers as immigrants. There was no such concept since the land being occupied had no designated ownership. These were simply settlers - colonialists if you prefer - establishing homesteads on otherwise unoccupied land.
In very many cases the so called natives moved into colonies established by these new settlers since they were significantly more civilized with greater availability of resources.
The descendants of the colonists were a driving force behind the war for independence. Yes, there were immigrants coming in at that time who joined the cause, but the descendants of the colonists were not immigrants, they were native born Americans.
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
That needs to be amended out of the Constitution.
Birthright citizenship may have been appropriate 150 years ago, but it creates millions of problems in the 21st Century - US children with illegal foreign parents.
What I suggest is:
The first sentence of Amendment XIV is hereby repealed.
Every child born in the USA after April 30, 2017 shall be born with the citizenship of their mother.
No foreigner may be granted US citizenship unless the foreigner is over age 22 and has resided and worked in the US lawfully for at least five years.
[That’s to make it impractical for Democrats to give a scofflaw mom or her newborn US citizenship.]
Precisely. For me and my family (both sides) this has always been the land of the free and the home of the brave. Interlopers who deign to force their globalism on me and mine will pay a terrible price for their presumption.
That “founded by immigrants” meme is not entirely true. My ancestors on the one side were in this land more than 150 years before the American Revolution. On the other side, others were native to this land eons before the arrival of Europeans. Many of us have Indian, Dutch and English roots pre-dating the formation of the U.S.
This is the teaching module required to be used on 7th Graders to teach immigation:
"The story of a teenage immigrant is described below. As a group, follow along as the story is read aloud and answer the questions that follow. Groups should be prepared to share their responses with the class. Living in the United States is not what I expected, but then, I didn't really know what to expect. I came to this country with my parents and two younger sisters. We emigrated/from our homeland when I was 11 years old. I'm 14 now. We left our country late at night. I awoke to my parents rushing around, telling us to hurry because we had to leave. I was so scared and confused, but 1 had to be strong so my little sisters would stay calm. 1 wanted to pack my pictures and books, but my parents said there was no room/or them. Can you imagine suddenly having to give up the treasured things that matter in your life? We met some men who smuggled all kinds of stuff across my country's borders, including people. 1 don't know how much my parents paid them to get us out of our country. We traveled by truck in the dark. We were cramped, frightened. and hungry. My parents said we were forced to leave our homeland because the war was making it too dangerous to live there. Although America was thousands of miles away, my parents decided that we should try to make a new life there. When we were safely out a/my country, we went to a U.S. embassy, hoping that the officials there would let us come to America. We waited many weeks before we were finally given permission to enter the United States. For me it was a long sad plane ride. 1 wish I could say that 1 love everything about being here, but 1 don't. I attend a large public school, and 1 have to take classes for people who don't speak English. The kids think I'm weird because of my strong accent. My parents have had trouble finding work here. My mother used to be a college professor, but now she can only find work as a nanny. People ask me, aren't’t you glad you came to America? Life must be so much better for you and your family!” 1 just smile and say. “Yeah:’ What 1 really want to say is, “Not really, this isn't at all what 1 expected. 1 think it will be easier in a few years when my English is better and 1 am more comfortable with living in a different place with different ways. 1 really do like eating hamburgers and fries and watching American movies. My teachers are helping me with my schoolwork, and I'm starting to make new friends. My father is taking classes to learn to be a computer programmer, and my mother is trying to find a job at a college or university. 1 know America is my home now but I don’t want to forge my homeland and the friends I left behind. "
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