Everyone in America is a migrant, disagree?

Question

So my question makes me a liberal?

Answer 1

The issue-at-hand is ILLEGAL immigration, and how to stop it.
One extreme way would be to end ALL immigration, legal or otherwise, for a period of time until everything clears up and the illegals clear out.

The liberal approach is amnesty, the conservative approach is enforcement. While doubtless there are many 'hard working' illegal immigrants, that's really not the issue, the issue is 'what are they doing in our country illegally', or more precisely 'why do US businesses see fit to pull elaborate shenanigans and try to circumvent US immigration laws to their economic benefit? That one almost answers itself, in the last 2 words, there.

We're a nation of laws. One of those laws governs how people are supposed to go about becoming US citizens, with no guidances, no regulations, why shouldn't the entire population of Mexico just move to the United States? How would you feel if the whole country of, say, Latvia, just picked up, packed up, and showed up at your front door?

There's 6.5 billion people that live in the world today, a great number of which(including a fair portion of, yes, Mexico) don't have a lot of money. Can we fit 2 billion people into the United States? What happens to the water supply, arable land, transportation infrastructure, healthcare system, education system, power? Law enforcement?

My point is, 'growth' is over-rated, and is hyped and pushe by those that have a financial stake in seeing things like housing development going full-bore. Cash speaks loudest on Capitol Hill, often drowning out whatever voices of reason and common sense might be trying to vainly compete.

We need to slow down on all this 'growth' and step back and take a good hard look at where it's all leading, in my view.
I'm all for regulated legal immigration, what we've got now is a mess, though, and does no one any good except for the opportunists. You could call this the 'immigration rush', but the joke's on the people being hustled in, because chances are pretty good that not all, maybe even a majority, won't be able to find good opportunities, and as time goes on, and there's more economic pressure on local communities, and things like higher crime rates, there'll be more social pressure to kind of back off the whole 'bums rush' immigration thing.

How big/how fast do you want to see your city/communit grow? What happens when sewage treatment/water/power/etc goes on the fritz in your area because of overdevelopment? Traffic? There's some things to consider on this, lots of angles, and some of them are not good at all. I mean, hey, it's your vote, I'm just saying read up s'more on all of this...

Answer 2

Absolutely....NOT! I recall reading at study in college where it said about 25% of American would be considered as migrant; including some Native Americans.

Why?

Reading the answers given by you most often reveal you don't know the definition of the word "migrant". Apparently most of you think it means some one who came to America from some other country. That's why you make it a point to say that everyone except Native Americans is a migrant.

Take about 2 minutes to look up the word migrant in a dictionary. A migrant is simply somebody who moves from place to place. Usually from region to region, state to state or city to city primarily seeking work or economic opportunities.

Most of you read migrant and out of sheer habit thought "immigrant". That was my first thought until I read the question again. If the question did say "immigrant" then the answer would have been yes.

Answer 3

No. We were either born on this plot of real estate, or immigrated to this country, or are descended from somebody who migrated/immigrated here...including the American Indians who, many moons ago, migrated to North America from Siberia.

Of course it's a matter of semantics. I can claim that I'm a migrant because I was born on Maple Street but now live on Oak Street.

Political borders are man-made. If somebody was born in the Republic of Texas and then Texas entered the United States, are they a migrant? Who knows..who cares? The US has people from all over kingdom-come and it's great.

Answer 4

Sorry hon but I'm an American Indian. My blood has been here since the tower of babel. So not everyone is a migrant. Americans just seem to forget that there was people here before the migrant. lol. Just thought I'd let you know thank you.

Answer 5

Not everyone, but most of people in America are migrant or migrant descendant.

Answer 6

Yes, I disagree. What is the definition of Native? What is the definition of migrant? I was born here, so what does that make me? A native! Yes, I knew you would see it my way.

Answer 7

I didn't migrate here from anywhere. To be a migrant, you have to come from somewhere else. Now, if I moved from here to Ireland, I'd be a migrant. "Migrant" implies movement.

And if you say the word "migrnat" over and over it begins to sound idiotic.

Answer 8

a migrant has to have moved to the place from somewhere else, so no. Everyone in America is decended from, or is, a migrant though.

Answer 9

I guess to a certain degree, i reckon the Native Americans have first dibs. everyone who is nor African and not living on Africa is a migrant cos this is where the cradle of mankind is.

Answer 10

"Migrant" implies a time frame. Nobody would suppose that a Native American or a First Canadian or an Inuit is a migrant.

You pick the time frame for the rest, and we can discuss.