How did your ancestors come to US?

Question

1Did they speak English?
2)Did the have any work experience and valuable skills...
3)Had they paid taxes before being handed US citizenship?
4) Did they come on a visa?

5) Did they come off a boat and no questions asked?
6) how did they become legal?

7)most of you don't know anything about your roots ! Then how the hell can you possibly claim your ancestors came legally?

I pay my taxes.

Answer 1

My ancestors were cave men.

I can prove it too, I have hair on my back.

And my wife sometimes calls me a knuckle dragger!

Now, Would all of you Non-furry types get off my land ?????

Gee bunt, It looks like you are getting irritated because unlike you claim, most of the people here can trace their roots. Kinda knocks the wind out of you sail doesn it.

I did give you a smart **** answer, and I thought about being serious and giving you a real answer, but you don't deserve one, and here is why.
Because I think that most here have already tried to explaine to a few of the knuckleheads here that we are not all immigrants. Being an immigrant is not hereditary, it can't be passed from generation to generation. if a person was born here, that person is a citizen, period. Get it?

Answer 2

1) No, my parents didn't speak English when they came here.
They learned all by themselves with no help, so I don't see why there's immigrants out there that don't speak English.

2) I don't know if they were let in because of work skills.

3) Yeah, I'm pretty sure they paid taxes still, because they were legal.

4) I don't know if they came on a visa...

5) They didn't take a boat, I think they both took a place. I don't know if anyone asked them questions.

6) I have no idea how they became legal....


7) I know my parents...ok I don't know if they came legally but I'm sure they did! Well I know they're legal now because they became US citizens a lil while ago!

Answer 3

One came six or more generations ago, the other three,... and the last was here already.

1)I know quite a bit about one side, and I know they knew many languages (english being one of them)... although I can't account for the others.

2)They owned farmland across the north of America...many where engineers and inventors. The other side was one of the first minorities in America, and generally their job was to marry white men...lol. The last one lived around the mexican border...no idea what the worked on.

3)They all lived in land that was highly unregulated at the time...in many instances they were essentially Canadians. Taxes really didn't exist when they came. Most taxes were indirect till 1913. I'm one of the few many, many, many... generation Americans.

4) No idea. I would assume the white side of me didn't really need anything (since then came from the western part of Europe right when settling here started). The rest of me comes from lands America conquered.


5) I'm sure some of them came on a boat...I have no idea about whethere they were questioned. Doubtful.


6) How did they become legal? Either marrying a white man or being a western european (as that was the preference in beginning america).


7)I know my roots, because they are well documented by a family member (atleast for one-side). Laws for immigration where much more lax, especially for western europeans, so that's why I doubt illegality in it, muchless they weren't very poor when they came here. The other side of me married white men, so legalities not a question again.

Answer 4

Many of my ancestors were already here, as I am choctaw, Shawnee, and Ottawa. Mostly my grandfather's immigrated here by order of the queen of England to establish settlements. They were builders, and craftsmen that worked under the Chief Bishop of early 17th century. My Dutch and Swedish ancestors migrated here also through England, to which I have the documentation.
Once here they either became soldiers, or politicans, but all fought for a government for the people of the people. And they had a dream of providing a place for people living under opressive rulers could come. Well, they did, and now it appears everyone else thinks they have the right to what my ancestors fought for. And, the worst part is they do not want to earn, like they, and we do, they want to just take it. My husband ancestors migrated here from Mexico about thirty years ago, and they even used the process that was in place at the time, and his grandparents still keep the citizen document that they earned in a glass frame hanging right next to the picture of Jesus.

Answer 5

Can be dated back to the Mayflower
But it dose not matter when you want to ask for immigration verse illegal immigrants.
People keep thinking just because this Country over 200 yrs ago was made of immigrants we did form a Country and a Government some thing that was not here at the time.By forming a Government making borders we became Americans it is not a racist thing to make people that want our Gov. resources to fallow our laws to become a citizen. At some time people have to become just Americans and stop this African/American or what have you when most have never seen the other Country.
Being my family came from Europe more the six Generations ago I feel I am just AMERICAN
And very Proud of being American and feel very lucky that they made the move

Answer 6

Actually half of my family came from Germany to avoid Hitler. I have the immigration papers of my great-great grandparents. Some came over on the Mayflower. A few came long before that and the rest were Native Americans. Most came here before there was a government. And they all had to have relevant skills to survive those times.

Good question, but what is your point? Immigration laws of today are the ones under scrutiny not stuff from a couple hundred years ago or longer.

Answer 7

1.Some spoke english and some didnt but learned.
2. some did. Ones that did not just started there own business.
3. Yes they did.
4. No, two came as identured servants. Others came when the US simply did a medical checkup before letting you enter.. Last ones to come did have visas

Answer 8

Part of my family was here before it was a country, in the English colony. We were naturalized by the Constitution. The latest immigrants in my family came in the 1800's when the US government offered homestead land to people who would come and farm it. Immigrants were needed then, and we came in response to a government invitation.

Then the government and other taxpayers did not subsidize services. My great grandparents and their neighbors set aside land for a school and a church and built them themselves and paid the teachers.

Now we subsidize education and health care for poor people including poor immigrants in this country, even if they pay all taxes. It costs $18,000 to educate a child for one year in California and poor immigrants with children don't pay a fraction of that. In addition they have subsidized health care, as well as access to hospital emergency care which cannot be denied if someone can't pay. Because of that requirement, 80 hospitals have closed in Southern California in just a short time recently.

Things are different than they were then. We need a restricted immigration policy to protect our services for our own people. No foreigner has a 'right' to be here and use those services unless we say they do.

Answer 9

My family was invited by an Indian who came back with the first boat. They came and were asked to stay. They didn't sneak in . They had many skills and they shared with their Indian friends and they did the same. They earned their supper and never were a burden. And had respect for them. And when they made laws it was for the protection of the people and they followed them.
They helped build this country -not take it down. The Reunion is in Aug. this year in Indiana.

Answer 10

I can see why you call yourself Bunt, that is probably what you have been smoking. For you to assume that most of us know nothing about our roots is presumptuous and incorrect. I know where I came from and my family didn't come over here, mooch off of a system without paying taxes, fly a flag from another country, and insult the people already here and yes, they knew English!