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To: armymarinedad
Around the time of Ellis Island I see a shift away from the Founders thinking.

That's because we let too many in too fast. That's how we got the likes of Teddy Kennedy and some other lefties. Hey, corporations wanted cheap labor then too. We were finally smart enough to see the light. I guess it's going to take some more violence like 'the gangs of New York'. One would have thought that 9/11 would have done it.

19 posted on 09/03/2007 6:20:12 PM PDT by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
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To: AuntB

“”I guess it’s going to take some more violence like ‘the gangs of New York’. “”

Not much truth in the film, in the year of that opening mass death scene with all the impossible to believe hacking and stabbing , there were only 10 homicides that year in all of NY.

The poverty wasn’t real, the Navy firing on the population, the Chinese people, very little real to it the historians say.


24 posted on 09/03/2007 6:46:00 PM PDT by ansel12 (First, cut off them off from jobs, benefits and other fruits of our society, Feed attrition.)
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To: AuntB; armymarinedad
That's because we let too many in too fast.

No, its because we started nationalizing people who had no business being American Citizens.

Immigration was always unrestricted into America, but the privilege of citizenship, which came with the right and duty of voting and jury service and civil service positions, was restricted.

42 posted on 09/04/2007 7:47:35 AM PDT by Andrew Byler
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