One here seems to think my ancestors were 'taxed to death' to support all the Irish immigrants.
No way do I accept the arguement from the open-borders crowd that we're a nation of immigrants. The first people who arrived here had to tame the wilderness, clear the land, feed themselves. There were no hospitals, railroads, or police. They are the creators of this country. Even immigrants from 100 years ago had it alot tougher than today. No welfare, no free medical, no ACLU suing for ballots in different languages.
Pick a few strawberrys, put up a couple of roofs, or babysit rich peoples kids and they tell you that they're the ones who keep this country going. Todays immigrants have it made compared to those older immigrants and its a slap in their face when that comparison is made.
I'm not an immigrant --- neither were my parents --- but what many forget is that even with Homesteading of land where there was so much available land they were giving every immigrant 40 acres, and the Industrial Revolution which was creating millions of low-skilled factory jobs, a third of the immigrants from Europe returned home within a short time. People like to think the boats were empty heading East --- but they were often filled with disillusioned un-immigrants which isn't the case today with Welfare around to make sure no one fails. Now 35-45% of our immigrants end up on welfare programs.