From: Gary Britt 



Ad wrote:
> 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?

Your points, as usual are complete bollacks.  A relative few certainly. 
Not 10% to 20% of the entire Mexican population.  You have no clue about
the USA.



> 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.


That's immigration going the other way around.  It was free territory back
then not well settled, and we took it, we paid for it in cash after kicking
some bucks.  We own it.  Its ours.

>
>> 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.


You are absolutely clueless.  Almost all of the prior waves of immigration
when the italians, polish, irish, etc. immigrated were entirely legal,
based on stict limits and they came in through designated ports of entry.


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

Completely clueless again.  As a percentage of the population the current
wave of illegal immigration is still orders of magnitude larger.  Why do
you give a shit about USA immigration anyway.  Get off your ass and start
sending boats to Mexico to pick-up 1000's of Mexicans and bring them to
your country illegally same for Sub-Saharan Africa.  When you reach 100's
per month of third world country, illiterate, uneducated, non-english
speaking immigrants and maintain it for about 20 years or so, then come
back and talk to me about immigration.  Until then just STFU.


>
> Why? You never have in the past

Yes we did, but since you are so obtuse you don't know that.


Gary

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