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To: FamiliarFace

2 of 4 of my grandparents never became citizens. And none of them spoke, read or wrote English. They came here about 1910.


1,738 posted on 01/30/2018 7:19:32 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Did they get on welfare or shuffle drugs into the country in a gang?


1,760 posted on 01/30/2018 7:21:11 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: Sacajaweau

My father’s father, came from Sicily at 18 yrs. old, alone on a ship, in 1909. He never became a citizen either due to not being able to learn the language. He spoke broken English, but mostly Italian..


1,772 posted on 01/30/2018 7:22:05 PM PST by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
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To: Sacajaweau

That should be one of the requirements (pass an English test.)


2,002 posted on 01/30/2018 7:34:03 PM PST by Paul R. (I don't want to be energy free, we want to be energy dominant in terms of the world. -D. Trump)
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To: Sacajaweau

My grandmother had a harder time learning English than my grandfather. He was a little boy when he arrived. She was a teenager. She kept at it, though. She only spoke English in front of her children and grandchildren. Czech was reserved strictly for my grandfather. I liken it to the times when children hear their middle name.


2,007 posted on 01/30/2018 7:34:19 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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And you're proud of that?

Shame on them and shame on YOU!

My great, great grandparents came much earlier than that, spoke 7 different languages, learned English, and became proud Americans; as did the other members of my extended family, who came here before they had.

And my family story isn't unique at all.

2,155 posted on 01/30/2018 7:44:34 PM PST by nopardons
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