From: Ad 

Gary Britt wrote:
> Prior immigrants came here pursuant to far more strict rules, had to
> come in via certain specific ports of entry and were subject in terms of
> their numbers to very specific limits on the number of people on a per
> country of origin basis.

In your dreams. Do you think people in the 1850'es didn't simply wander in
from Mexico or Canada? Heck American illegal immigrants wandered into
Mexico in such numbers that they ended up nicking the northern Mexican
provinces right from the Western edge of Louisiana to the Pacific.


> Further, after that last great wave of
> immigration (great by past standards but a mere ripple compared to the
> current tsunami of illegal immigration) the country basically took a 60
> to 100 year break in allowing waves of immigrants in order to properly
> assimilate your ancestors.
>

Really. Which 100 years was this exactly?

1776-1876? 1877-1977?

Lot's of Italians, Irish, Poles etc will be mucho surprised.

> Comparisons of past immigration periods to today's problem are
> completely inapplicable (comparing apples and oranges) because:
>
> 1.  Can't compare LEGAL immigration to ILLEGAL immigration.

How much immigration was LEGAL? A hell of a lot of it was simply
undocumented vs legal. People simply wandered in from all sorts of places
inc China, Japan, Latin America, Eastern Europe etc but the place was big
& empty & had huge borders & coastline so who gave a damn.

> 2.  The differences in numbers of past waves of LEGAL immigration to
> current tsunami of ILLEGAL immigration are so different by a couple or
> more orders of magnitude to make any such comparisons completely
> unreasonable and inapplicable.

The population of the US is orders of magnitude greater so as a % of the
population that numbers aren't much different.

> 3.  We should have started a 60 to 100
year break to absorb the illegals
> and their families in the country oh about 10 to 20 years ago in order
> to be comparable to taking breaks after past LEGAL immigration waves.
>

Why? You never have in the past & yet despite that you keep telling us
how the US is the greatest place in the whole world, how Americans are the
greatest people, how you economy is the greatest etc.etc.

It would appear you want to threaten the American way at it's very core.


> You can be against continued and unabated ILLEGAL immigration without
> forgetting in any way about our own ancestors who immigrated here
> LEGALLY followed by a sustained drop in immigration to allow
> absorption.  BIG DIFFERENCES.  NO COMPARISON.
>

Can you prove your ancestors arrived LEGALLY? Do you have documentary
evidence to back that up?

Adam


> Gary
>
>
>
> Geo. wrote:
>> "Adam"
<""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge">
>> wrote in message news:4650af71$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>>>> This is like listening to blacks bitch about Mexicans. You
have such a
>>>> nice native American sounding name bob, perhaps you could
tell us what
>>>> tribe you come from?
>>>>
>>> Bob new-Comer?
>>>
>>> 
>>
>> Well yeah, it's like my wife is Polish and Amish and  I'm Italian and
>> German so I should bitch about people coming to America because they
>> want a better life? People like that are the heart and sole of this
>> country and we better never forget it.
>>
>> Geo.

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