Posted on 03/17/2021 4:35:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
That old adage "we are all immigrants" has been bandied about with increasing frequency of late to support all manner of loosey-goosey immigration policies. The assumption seems to be that immigration is an unquestioned good. We are all immigrants, and look what wonderful people we are, so immigration is peachy for the country. We must have more of it!
As with so many modern ideas, this one is founded on a canard. We all are most emphatically not immigrants.
I'll start with me. I am a descendant of colonists turned revolutionaries. My ancestor Adam was thirteen when he joined the ragtag ranks of the insurrectionists in Maryland. He survived to witness the surrender of the British at Yorktown. Adam was a founder, not an immigrant.
Adam's story is just one example of a person who became a citizen through means other than immigration. Perhaps your French ancestor was happily trapping beavers along a Missouri River in 1803 when President Jefferson bought the land right out from under him in the Louisiana Purchase. C'est la vie. But it's not immigration. Actually, your forebear's path to citizenship was a bumpy ride. Although Louisiana came in easily, the other states formed out of this vast territory were the subject of monumental pulling and tugging over the expansion of slavery and the balance of power between slave and free states. New citizens were minted by compromise and calculation. Citizens of Maine owe Missourians a debt of gratitude, because they were used as a counterweight to balance the statehood of slave-holding Missouri.
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Most of our ancestors came here legally according to the laws of the land, where there were any. They were needed and not a burden. Most contributed instead of just taking.
Most of our ancestors came here legally according to the laws of the land, where there were any. They were needed and not a burden. Most contributed instead of just taking.
Sorry about the double post. It reset the connection after I posted.
sorry, but unless you are native american, at some point in the past your ancestors were immergrants.
Obviously if you were born here you’re a native American, not an immigrant.
Both of my Grandmother’s were born in Ireland. They came to Boston with nothing about 1915. They both worked as nannies for wealthy Boston families. They met and married my grandfathers who were both longshoremen. Both would end up having 6 kids.
My paternal grandfather was one of 13 children! All they did was work. All my male relatives served in WW II. They were all extremely grateful and proud of their country.Tough life, but they made it, and thank god for me they did.
Now people are sensitive about Dr Suess and whether a “girl” with a dick is on the correct sports team.
Ugh.
Anyone born here is a Native American.
You hit it the head on the nail there Tennessee.
If it weren’t for welfare, free medical, free school, free school lunches, etc ... many wouldn’t come here. If it weren’t for cheap labor to get around minimum wage laws. If it weren’t for whipping voters into line for the demonkraps. If none of these existed, the the demonkraps and GOPe would be building double walls along the border.
Lots of nice noise.
The Mexican and Central American masses invading the country couldnt care less about any high brow citizenship concepts. Its utterly beyond them.
They just want gringo cash, and if they’re male, a guera blondina gringa.
In their culture only the weak let their land be occupied. They are thugs from a thug culture.
Hugo Chavez, Maduro, the Castros and twenty generations of Mexican Caudillo “leaders” are exactly what this country will get if we let the Invasion continue.
Whimpers of abstract concepts will mean nothing to the ruthless, relentless and vicious descendants of theirs who will turn our land into the same ghastly nightmares their ancestors created.
An Indian?
Dad got Ancestry for Christmas so I did his genealogy. 2 direct ancestors were killed in Indian Massacres, 3 sons of direct ancestors were killed by indians (Quaker Pacifists). Two daughters of direct ancestors were enslaved by indians, one for 3 years, one for 10 years.
Going back to 1620’s in America, no slave owners found in direct descendants and 3 fought for the North in the Civil war.
If Europeans never came to the new world, there would be no wheeled transport and the natives would still be playing kickball with the Human heads of their enemies.
But that is part of their narrative.
Anyone but Indians (I will not call them “Native”) is illegitimate, on the one hand, while legitimizing illegals on the other.
Or an anchor baby.
A child of an immigrant is not an immigrant. One does not inherit guilt or merit from one’s parents. Each individual is responsible for his/her actions.
Everyone who came to this landmass came from some other landmass.
Yes. Minimum wage needs to be argued as the main reason there is any “problem” with illegals. The other stuff is candy, but the fact people cannot pay these ridiculous minimum wages is the main attraction for hiring illegals.
Know the difference, between founders,invited immigrants, and criminal invaders. It’s that simple.
Native Americans also were immigrants, just much earlier. DNA testing indicates more than one wave of immigration for them.
I’m not an immigrant. I was born here, my parents were born here, my grandparents and great grandparents were born here. Technically I’m a native American.
“but unless you are native american, at some point in the past your ancestors were immergrants.”
Even Native Americans immigrated here at some point.
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