Funny, my ancestors came here not because of some dude with a pen in the White House.
The two do not equate, but they won’t admit that.
She escaped the Soviet Union to write for New Republic and cheerlead for Obama?
>>Yankel. It’s safe to say that Thanksgiving was his favorite holiday: Sitting at a table groaning under the otherworldly quantity of food, surrounded by his children and successful, Americanized grandchildren,
And this is the difference between the old immigration and the new immigration. Yankel wanted his grandchildren to be AMERICANS. Jose wants his children to be Latino-Americans, Mexican-Americans, or just plain Hispanics. He wants them speaking Spanish for a thousand years and he wants us speaking Spanish as well. Yankel did not want to bring Russia to America. He left Russia and became American.
Fine. Then shut down ICE and INS (or whatever they changed the name to) and the Border Patrol and every other bloated bureaucracy taxpayers are paying for that are SUPPOSED to address immigration issues.
Nobody’s an American if the Constitution is set aside.
Dishonest piece.
They were legitimate refugees.
The tens of millions who have invaded our country in recent decades are not.
We used to pride ourselves on being a Constitutional Republic and a nation of laws, not a dictatorship headed for third world status where a personality cult for a tyrannical, bobble-headed, paste eating, dope fiend have replaced the US Constitution.
MY ancestors either became citizens via the system Oath of Citizenship and all that OR they stepped off the ships to an almost empty continent. (mostly the latter)
Much different than taking over a nation full of people by the whim of a commie, Muslim, radical, man-of-lawlessness and his friends.
Yea, I know the natives picked flowers, chased bunnies and never wielded knives./sarc
My ancestors were immigrants too.
The difference is that we came legally and we have generations (from two generations to twelve generation, depending on which branch on the family) of history upholding the law and preserving, protecting, and defending the Constitution. I even have the original Ellis Island papers for several of my ancestors, all of whom entered legally.
My family is, like most American families, the exact opposite of illegal immigrants and of the criminal in our White House.
Julia Ioffe is comparing apples and oranges. She and her ancestors followed certain guidelines. She said: “...my father wrote to our local congressman.....and my father’s cousin had been a guarantor for (other Jewish relatives who were oppressed in the Soviet Union).” OK.....
They followed some facsimile of a Process and Protocol. They did not enter our borders by taking a submarine up to the port of New York and sneaking in. They were NOT lawbreakers the moment they sat foot on American soil.
Oh Good.
Just what we need, another lecture from the very same ethnic cohort who gave us Immanuel Cellar and the 1965 Hart-Cellar Act which touched off chain immigration.
Complete with the usual “you’re just a bunch of immigrants too”....as if the 330 years since my mother’s ancestors set up camp on Staten Island was just a blink in time.
Oh, and she argues for an ominpotent Executive, just like Good Tsar!
Gosh Yulia...didn’t you guys have a problem with Tsar, overthrew him for the promise of a Socialist Paradise under the rule of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?
Guess that didn’t work out so good. Oh well, just another stupid scheme. What’s a 100 million people or so dead because of that? You can always split for the U.S. where you can show up and lecture us about what our country is all about....even though you were never here, and you and your families did everything you could to burn down the U.S. back when you were good little Bolshevikii.
And that’s an argument for simply standing aside and letting tens of millions of Mexicans to simply invade and occupy?
Think it’s the opposite.
None of the prior immigrant populations who came here legally (such as my four Yiddische grandparents) ever made it necessary for Americans to press “1” for English.
Do they have to press “1” for Spanish in Mexico nowadays? I didn’t think so.
And by the way, how come nobody ever complains about Spanish speaking Mexicans stealing the land from the poor Native Mexicans?
“As you celebrate tonight, consider that the lesson here isn’t so much that Cubans or Soviet Jews shouldn’t be there, but that maybe some other people deserve a shot at an American Thanksgiving rather than an ill-informed lecture on the ‘law’.”
They used to come because they wanted to become Americans. Then they started to become hyphenated Americans. Now they’re Somalis, Mexicans, Nigerians, Saudis, etc., who hate America and Americans and want to help Obama turn it into a third world country after they get all their free stuff.
They used to come to get an education and start businesses or find work and enjoy the fruits of their own labor. Now they want to sit around whining and collect free stuff. Free stuff means other people are being robbed and eventually we’ll be just like the muzzie and commie-run hate-infested barbarian messes they all supposedly wanted to escape from.
If they ALL come here there won’t BE an America. We can’t give them ALL a free ride through life!!
When my surname ancestor came here there was no executive. In fact the Kingship of England was in doubt and contested. It was only when a new ruthless king tried to rule this land by executive fiat, that the original Americans rose up and kicked the executive out. You are no American if you want an executive to rule by fiat. Leave now. The revolution is coming once again.
My father, my two uncles, and my grandparents came here legally from The Netherlands in 1912. They had to go through Ellis Island, and follow the quarantine and holding period just like everybody else.
Those who came from communist countries wanted to become Americans - they filed for citizenship, often waiting years, but in the mean time they learned English and pushed their children to do well in school..... opposite of all things invasion of mexicans.
“Oh, yes masseur.”
“Go back to Bulgaria.”
More of the tired, old, “Conservatives hate immigrants” tripe. Conservatives aren’t against immigration. We are against illegal invaders bringing untold numbers of diseases and exacerbating already out of control crime problems. Not every potential immigrant that landed on Ellis Island got to continue on to the U.S. Those that couldn’t pass health screens were quarantined or sent back. If I remember correctly, a sponsor family member was required as well in order to keep the streets from being flooded with homeless people. Many of my ancestors came pre Colonial period, and thise were arriving to an almost empty continent. Thise that couldn’t pay their way became indentured servants for 5 years. Imagine the howling if that were proposed now! I work with a man from Columbia who is going through the proper channels to become an American citizen. It has taken years and thousands of dollars, and he still has more to go. I can only imagine how he feels seeing all the line jumpers ahead of him now.
Julia writes some good propaganda...
with the logic of a 6 year old girl... maybe 5..
The New Republic DESPISES republicans...
ALL of them.. even the RINOs...