Immigration has pitted Americans against one another for over a century now. Intriguingly, that's about the same amount of time the federal government has presumed an interest in the issue. Its interference has turned the debate over immigration into a toxic brew. But when we strain the emotion and rhetoric from it, it boils down to a simple question: should the state regulate our comings and goings? From the beginning colonial governments have involved themselves with American immigration. Sometimes that involvement was as total as the French and Spanish kings' spending their subjects' money to export colonists to the New World and then ruling them. Other times there was less picking of poor people's pockets: the British Crown preferred to grant charters. ... As these newcomers transformed the eastern strip of the American continent from a wilderness into 13 British colonies, the Crown continued to influence immigration by unloading its "criminals" there.
02 Jul 2009 @ 02:57 am
9 comments
From fredrickson - 05 Jul 2009 @ 05:01 pm
In Reply to Anonyma shhhhhhhh try to stay away from home.
From Anonyma - 05 Jul 2009 @ 04:38 pm
In Reply to fredrickson: No, I couldn't though I tried. The comments are all pretty good thus far.
From fredrickson - 05 Jul 2009 @ 04:12 pm
In Reply to Anonyma: UH HUH Betcha can't guess who I am?
From Anonyma - 05 Jul 2009 @ 02:57 pm
In Reply to fredrickson: Thank you, can you guess which comment is mine?
From fredrickson - 05 Jul 2009 @ 01:51 pm
Have a good one going in the comments section here. I can't have all the fun!!! Get after em!!!
These masses aren't huddling -- they're here illegally and marching in the streets to impose themselves upon us personally.
From AmericanG - 04 Jul 2009 @ 04:15 am
the link is to a communist web site
From cudzuqueen - 02 Jul 2009 @ 08:05 am
The newest masses that are coming via illegal routes are bringing down this nation with their diseases, their demands and their far too many spawn sucking up taxpayer funded entitlements, educations, medication and incarcerations. They do nothing constructive for this country, and continue to keep wages down, and Americans from the jobs that they deserve. Their spawn are dumbing down our schools while they continue dropping more mouths to feed at break-neck speed. To hell with these newest masses of human excrement.
From Gorilla - 02 Jul 2009 @ 06:42 am
The Preamble of the Constitution of the United States includs'proved for the common defence'. That means the invasion of individuals who enter our country by illegal means. We have the most lenient immigration laws of any country in the world.
Personally, I think it's time to stop legal immigration and control our population growth to save our environment and living standards.
From fredrickson - 05 Jul 2009 @ 05:01 pm
