[coalminer]

Good life, your letter is an example of twisted logic in light of the protests happening in this country.

[GoodLife]

Originally Posted by coalminer

Good life, your letter is an example of twisted logic in light of the protests happening in this country.

America gets millions of immigrants from all over the world, we're more popular as a place to move to than anywhere else on earth. People vote with their feet. They keep voting for America. Nothing twisted at all about that.

[Alana33]

ALL of Our Ancestors were Immigrants!
They fled their countries for many reasons, war, famine, religious persecution, a chance of a better life, etc. You and your family would not be here had America, Land of the Free, not welcomed you!
The only indigenous peoples are Native American Indians and we pretty well screwed them over and continue to do so as well as other people of color and creed.
Bigotry and racism is well on display.

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by Alana33

ALL of Our Ancestors were Immigrants!
They fled their countries for many reasons, war, famine, religious persecution, a chance of a better life, etc. You and your family would not be here had America, Land of the Free, not welcomed you!

The only indigenous peoples are Native American Indians and we pretty well screwed them over and continue to do so as well as other people of color and creed.

Bigotry and racism is well on display.

Well said.

[Pamelah]

Originally Posted by GoodLife

Let me help.

Sarcasm: Generally, the literal meaning is different than what the speaker intends to say through sarcasm. Sarcasm is a literary and rhetorical device that is meant to mock, often with satirical or ironic remarks,

How about using less sarcasm?

It's much worse in their homeland.

[Boblib68]

We were all immigrants to this country except the native Indians! This is what made our country great!!

[stan the man]

Originally Posted by Boblib68

We were all immigrants to this country except the native Indians! This is what made our country great!!

Yes we took what we wanted --- took the Indians land - took the western part of the US from Mex. and yes we took Fla. We gave the Indians Nothing but disease..We used the slave to make America great

[rlcooper70]

What percentage of illegals came here legally and overstayed their visa? We had an Irish guy who had been living in Somerville Ma for 30 years ... to get his visa renewed he would have had to leave his business and go back to Ireland and re-apply (at the time) and he didn't leave his wife and kids and business ... just overstayed. They sent him back to Ireland in 2016. Deacon in the Church. He was one of the illegals you are referencing.

[MandoMan]

Originally Posted by GoodLife

Every year about a million immigrants are admitted to America legally. We get more immigrants than any country on Earth. Not easy, lots of paperwork, costs money, millions are denied. Estimates of illegal immigrants in the country are 10-12 million, lots of them are minorities. They'll brave deserts, walk over mountains, swim rivers, die of thirst and starvation, and pay thousands of dollars to their guides. If they get caught and deported, they do it all over again and again.

What the heck are they thinking? I see people on this forum telling us how racist this country is, how "systemic oppression" grinds minorities to dust and despair, and our economic system is designed to crush the weak. Plus our police are racists brutes who like to beat people up.

I can only conclude that all the immigrants that keep coming here are complete idiots, or masochists, probably both.

Do I sense an ironic grin on your face? I suspect that a lot of readers didn’t catch your irony.

I’m a descendant of immigrants from Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands (Jewish), Belgium, France, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Africa, and India. Also 3.4% Neanderthal! Some were well off when they came here or even had titles. Many came as indentured servants and spent years essentially in slavery in Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky before working off their sentences and making lives for themselves. Some were descended from slaves in British Guiana. One of my sisters and one of my first cousins married men from Mexico, one of them here illegally. My Danish great-grandfather was born a couple years after his parents arrived in Minnesota. In 1896 he started college, at a new school in Lincoln, Nebraska. All of his classes were taught in Danish, even though he was born here. He went on to write religious articles in Danish for sale to Danish immigrants on the prairies. His wife was born in Norway. None of their children spoke any Danish or Norwegian. Isn’t this a great country? I’m so glad to be a descendent of immigrants, even though I prefer that immigrants be legal and treated with respect and dignity and protected so long as they abide by the laws.

[Bucco]

Originally Posted by rlcooper70

What percentage of illegals came here legally and overstayed their visa? We had an Irish guy who had been living in Somerville Ma for 30 years ... to get his visa renewed he would have had to leave his business and go back to Ireland and re-apply (at the time) and he didn't leave his wife and kids and business ... just overstayed. They sent him back to Ireland in 2016. Deacon in the Church. He was one of the illegals you are referencing.

SPOILER ALERT...on here, the norm is to classify and label and then attack

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by stan the man

Yes we took what we wanted --- took the Indians land - took the western part of the US from Mex. and yes we took Fla. We gave the Indians Nothing but disease..

We used the slave to make America great

Thank you for being willing, in the face of so many posters who purposely forget this fact and will attack you for it...to speak up.

Not only was this nation founded with violent protesting, because of what they felt was a lack of justice and constant discrimination from the British, but its foundation of wealth...was built on the backs of free labor from black slaves.

[Bucco]

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore

Thank you for being willing, in the face of so many posters who purposely forget this fact and will attack you for it...to speak up.

Not only was this nation founded with violent protesting, because of what they felt was a lack of justice and constant discrimination from the British, but its foundation of wealth...was built on the backs of free labor from black slaves.

Seems some must have someone to hate and immigrants are one of the selected. Must make some feel special.

[Pedrocarrasco01@yahoo.com]

Originally Posted by anothersteve

There are people that really have a hard time with the terms legal and illegal. Excuse the expression, but it's black and white.

Steve

I am 100% for legal immigration, however illegals do not comply with our society’s rules, they already broke our laws by coming illegally, I am a LEGAL immigrant and an Naturalized American Citizen, illegals don’t abide by rules most drive without licenses, Insurance, and by the way the estimate is between 11 and 25 million in our Country.

[kenoc7]

Originally Posted by Stuart Zaikov

Best country on earth but we should not be allowing illegals to come here

The USA is not the best country - it leads the world in very few indicators of health, wealth or well-being. Watch Jeff Daniels on "Newsroom"