MandoMan |
06-01-2020 06:57 AM |
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Originally Posted by GoodLife
(Post 1774509)
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.
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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.
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