[pittsburgh gop guy]

"I'm thrilled that you decided to make America your home."

I didn't decide: my mother is from Germany and married my American father who was over there in the Air Force. They moved back to the States and had a few kids, me included. My father's side has been here since before the Civil War.

Guess what - unless you are American-Indian, your kin-folk probably came off some boat on our shores within the last couple of hundred years. I worry more about people who are anti-immigration that I do about hard-working immigrants.

[FreedomFriend]

You know why, it's because you are living in Pittsburgh, probably the largest metropolitan area that has seen the least of any type of invasion. Why is it always teh "conservative" individuals who live in the midwest or parts of the interior northeast (adding liberals of other regions, of course) who always talk about the values of immigration, and how it is working today. Why is it the people least effected by it who think that nothing has changed?

You can't tell a true conservative in California, the southwest, even increasing amounts of the south, west and the DC-Boston Corridor that things are the same. They simply are not.

[Twodees]

I didn't decide: my mother is from Germany and married my American father who was over there in the Air Force

Then you aren't a "first generation American", Einstein.

Guess what - unless you are American-Indian, your kin-folk probably came off some boat on our shores within the last couple of hundred years. I worry more about people who are anti-immigration that I do about hard-working immigrants.

Guess what - that isn't the subject under discussion here. If you can't keep up, keep quiet. Sheesh.

[rdb3]

I didn't decide: my mother is from Germany and married my American father who was over there in the Air Force. They moved back to the States and had a few kids, me included. My father's side has been here since before the Civil War.

Then you're not a first-generation American! Either way, it's cool. You're in the States now, right?