Of course most came from immigrants, but not illegals.
By your logic,,, please explain who on earth cannot claim American citizenship? It sounds like you think anyone who simply *gets here* is entitled?
Why is it so impossible to discuss illegal immigration without it being a discussion of immigration as a right?
Also,, when do we get to discuss lifting the draconian immigration limits placed on mostly white european nations? It seems like you have to be brown or from a third world hell-hole before the door swings open. How many Somalis have we taken in,,, as opposed to say, Poles, Brits, Ukranians,,etc??
Why are whites largely not allowed to become US citizens anymore?
Who said that white people aren't allowed to become citizens anymore? I know of quite a few Irish, some Scots, Russians, British and French, who have become citizens of late.
As far as being 'brown', or from the third world, most folks in the third world ARE brown, and it's probably because the third world is so unstable, that folks from there are given refugee status and are allowed in. I'm not saying it's right, I'm only stating the possibility that that seems to be the reason.
This negativity toward immigrants, illegal or otherwise, reminds me of what my mother said her grandparents went through when they came to America in the late 1800s. They were denigrated, because the moved into Southern Mississippi, and *gasp* were Italian and Catholic.