Posted on 09/20/2014 1:57:15 PM PDT by MSSC6644
We often hear about the glory days of immigration when America threw open her arms to the huddled masses, but one thing you dont hear about is how those people had to make it on their own without a government safety net. There was plenty of private charity, which was highly encouraged, but health care, a minimum-wage job, college entrance, housing, legal representation, and education certainly werent promisednot like today.
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Well we German descent folks are the single largest group in America these days.
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When I married my wife from Mexico I had to prove I could financially support her before they would issue the Fiancee visa.
That was 20 years ago.
The liberals have driven us into a rut since then.
People don’t realize that immigration didn’t really start until the times approaching the Civil War, the first generations of Americans accepted about 6,000 people a year, and of course most of those were similar or in some way connected to the people who founded the nation.
It is a myth that we created the nation and then welcomed the world to start flocking in, that was done much later, politics never really change, and boy, did immigration bring in the European politics.
What a thought filled letter that was well written, clear, and concise. Can anyone imagine either former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or Secretary of State John F. Kerry ever writing such an eloquent letter?
My, my. Did he refer to those state thingies, which today exist to serve Rome-on-the-Potomac?
But there is one principle which pervades all the institutions of this country, and which must always operate as an obstacle to the granting of favors to new comers. This is a land, not of privileges, but of equal rights. Privileges are granted by European sovereigns to particular classes of individuals, for purposes of general policy; but the general impression here is that privileges granted to one denomination of people, can very seldom be discriminated from erosions of the rights of others.
Emigrants from Germany, therefore, or from elsewhere, coming here, are not to expect favors from the governments. They are to expect, if they choose to become citizens, equal rights with those of the natives of the country. They are to expect, if affluent, to possess the means of making their property productive, with moderation, and with safety;if indigent, but industrious, honest and frugal, the means of obtaining easy and comfortable subsistence for themselves and their families.
They come to a life of independence, but to a life of laborand, if they cannot accommodate themselves to the character, moral, political, and physical, of this country, with all its compensating balances of good and evil, the Atlantic is always open to them, to return to the land of their nativity and their fathers.
Worthy of a blogpost
Shots down La-Raza, NAACP, etc.
the Atlantic is always open to them, to return to the land of their nativity and their fathers.
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OH NOOOOOOEZ
Adams was a rasis...
Deportation...separating families...
HATER !!!
Have you ever read what Franklin thought of the German immigrants?
Feel free. I've never done one before. (I mainly just read and sometimes comment, even though I've been here a very long time.)
BTTT.
How far (down) we have come.
Little did he realize the Rio Grande would be a port of entry.....
Or that oath-takers like Dick Durbin (Dem--Ill) is blaming the Ebola epidemic in Africa in part on House Republicans failure to pass the Senate amnesty giveaway.
Durbin’s remark is right up there with Nancy Pelosi....or the guy who thought Guam could tip over.
You’d think they’d be embarrassed by their stupidity but I suppose being a liberal means never having to say you’re sorry.
JQA is one of our most interesting Presidents. “John Quincy Adams” by Paul C. Nagel will surprise and delight you.
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