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Originally Posted by ColdNoMore
You mean since your distant relatives already immigrated here and you're only primarily against one religion immigrating...correct?
I'm pretty sure after the Native Americans saw what happened to them...they would now feel the same way about 'Christian immigrants.' 
The positive side (if there is one from dying), is that the overwhelming vast majority of Americans will die of heart problems, obesity, car crashes, firearm accidents, etc....instead of from religious extremist terrorism.
That's why facts, not emotions manifested from fear tactics....matter. |
When the pilgrims first came to this land, there was no country here. There were simply tribal peoples. The land wasn't considered to be "owned" by anyone or considered to be part of any country.
So making a comparison to the first European people to come here and illegal immigrants is ludicrous.
A country has since been formed and as a country, we have laws that determine who may enter. This is not different from any other sovereign country on earth.
No one is against any people of any religion immigrating here. Most of the terrorists that have attacked us, (it's probably a good idea to remember that we were attacked and continue to be attacked) came from Muslim majority countries. If they had come and continued to come from Ireland, it would be prudent to look more closely at people trying to immigrate from Ireland.
There is absolutely no rational argument that can be made against looking closely at who immigrates to this country and knowing who and where non-U.S. citizens are in this county.
No one is implying that all Muslims are terrorists. But no one can deny that the vast majority of terrorists who have been attacking us over the past 16 years have been Muslims. These people believe in an extremist form of Islam with which most Muslims disagree. Those Muslims want to kill as many U.S. citizens that they can and want to destroy our country and turn the entire world into a theocracy based on their religious belief. According to some on the left, we should ignore this threat and pretend that it does not exist because it might appear that we are discriminating on the basis of race or religion. That's utter nonsense.