"Going through the legal process" well into the 1900s meant ... just showing up here. Citizenship was automatic.
In the peak of immigration 3 million people were coming yearly on a whim and claiming citizenship as soon as they reached Ellis Island on boat. Speaking English, working hard, paying taxes...most did none of these.
If the immigrantion laws were as tight as today when your ancestors came, none of you would be here?
2006-09-23 07:26:25 · 27 answers · asked by bunt 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Yes, the political laws have changed but not the HUMAN laws! and most of you who rant and rave that immigrants should go "thru the leagl process" have no idea tha we can't.
2006-09-23 07:32:11 · update #1
Times change get over it
Illegal is illegal that's how it is now
Live now not 100 yrs ago
Illegal is illegal
2006-09-23 07:29:27 · answer #1 · answered by buzzy360comecme 3 · 6⤊ 2⤋
First and foremost my ancestors on my paternal side were pilgrims and Pasemaquodi native americans. And the maternal side are just off the boat, they came her from England in the 80s. Yes I do realize that some of my relatives did come during the giant migration to the United States but that was in an era when the US needed to increase its population, but in this day and age we have so many people here it isn't necessary to let everyone in.
Also for your own information in this country you don't ave to speak english to become a citizen, you can have a translator. Also during the 1900s most of the people did learn English eventually, and all of their children spoke it and often times just English. In this time if you come from a different country to here you expect people to accomodate you and speak whatever language is spoken in your native country. This is an English speaking country, blame that on your ancestors they are the ones who caused us to speak it, and don't say they didn't come from an english speaking country, because as the point i made above, they forced their children to speak English to aclamate to the US to be real US citizens.
2006-09-23 14:42:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
You say that you cannot go through the legal process. If that is the truth, then there must be a reason you are not allowed to participate in the legal immigration process. The laws are in place to provide quality immigrants, not huge quantities of shiftless third world poor who will require government social services at taxpayer expense. Change the things that are wrong with your application and try again, it doesnt seem to be a governmental problem, its your problem.
2006-09-23 21:12:40 · answer #3 · answered by Stands Alone 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it was a good idea for the immigrant's to have to go through this process. If they came to USA and became hard working law abiding citizens then there would not be a problem. But many of them come over to live of the system and have kid after kid. They don't pay taxes and they send all there money to their country. Which is very unfair for the citizen of our country who bust there *** off. They expect us to accommodate to them instead of them learning our language and our culture.
2006-09-23 14:59:36 · answer #4 · answered by Erin J 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not quite sure what Human laws are.Are they the laws that people site to circumvent the real laws that our country is run by? We all go thru things we don't wish to go thru .And we do know what it feels like,but the laws are to be obeyed.
We ***** and grip about it.But do it because its the law of our land.No one gets to cut in line or push any one to the back of the line.you wait and you take your turn.And its like the DMV if you don't have your papers in order you wait until you do then you get back into the end of the
line..You can demand change all you want,you can complain,but its not going to help .There is not going to be any blanket amnesty,that's not going to happen,its a dead issue in Washington.They are listening to the American public,and its 81% against any form of amnesty.the borders are being tightened and will be secure before too long.I know you are very upset at your own situation but who really is to blame ?
2006-09-23 14:51:48 · answer #5 · answered by Yakuza 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
And? First of all you are factually incorrect ... citizenship was not automatic even back then ... secondly, we are dealing with TODAY ... laws change, what was good law in the 1900s may not necessarily be good law in 2006 ... this absolutely idiotic concept that is brought up time after time about who originally owned this place, and what laws were followed hundreds of years ago, is just plumb silly .... Australia was a convict colony not too long ago ... you could get passage to Australia as late as the 1960s for $20 and an open arm welcome .... well, let me tell you, today Australia's immigration laws are very harsh, and rightly so ... and likewise here ...our laws reflect the situation of today, not some foggy day hundreds of years ago ....
2006-09-23 14:32:53 · answer #6 · answered by Sashie 6 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Immigration has played an important role in American history, and the United States continues to have the most open immigration policy in the world. Before the era of rapid communications and transportation, America encouraged relatively open immigration to settle its empty lands. After certain states passed immigration laws following the Civil War, the Supreme Court in 1875 declared the regulation of immigration a federal responsibility. The Immigration Service was established in 1891 to deal with the big increase in immigration which started in 1880.
The outbreak of World War I reduced immigration from Europe, but mass immigration resumed upon the war's conclusion, and Congress responded with a new immigration policy: the national-origins quota system, passed in 1921 and revised in 1924. Immigration was limited by assigning each nationality a quota based on its representation in past U.S. census figures. Also in 1924, Congress created the U.S. Border Patrol within the Immigration Service.
There was very little immigration over the next 20 years, with net immigration actually dropping below zero for several years during the Depression. Immigration remained relatively low during the 20 years following World War II, because the 1920s national-origins system remained in place after Congress re-codified and combined all previous immigration and naturalization law into the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. American agriculture continued to import seasonal labor from Mexico, as they had during the war, under a 1951 formal agreement between the United States and Mexico that made the Bracero Program permanent.
In 1965, Congress replaced the national origins system with a preference system designed to unite immigrant families and attract skilled immigrants to the United States. This change to national policy responded to changes in the sources of immigration since 1924. The majority of applicants for immigration visas now came from Asia and Latin America rather than Europe. The preference system continued to limit the number of immigration visas available each year, however, and Congress still responded to refugees with special legislation. Not until the Refugee Act of 1980 did the United States have a general policy governing the admission of refugees.
Legal immigration alone in the 1990s likely matched or exceeded the previous historical peak decade of 1901-1910, when 8.8 million legal immigrants were admitted. Adding the settlement of illegal aliens makes the 1990s without doubt the period of greatest immigration in America's history.
Get your facts straight first.....
2006-09-23 14:32:26 · answer #7 · answered by CrazyCatLady 4 · 12⤊ 1⤋
...and those people have made American the successful country it is today. My grandmother's parents came to Ellis Island and her parents said that she should be thankful she was in such a great country. They insisted the family speak English and they all worked for college degrees without handouts. That's the American way.
2006-09-23 15:07:40 · answer #8 · answered by elong 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Do you realize that the year is 2006 and immigration laws are not the same as they were in 1900? We can try to rationalize it until it makes us feel better, but we have to accept the reality is here and now.
2006-09-23 14:29:35 · answer #9 · answered by kitty fresh & hissin' crew 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
None of you? I beg to differ, Missy. Some of MY ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War, or as the other half of my family likes to call it, the American Colonial Revolt. Other members of my family are native Ho Chunk Ojibwe and so part of my family were here before anyone else.
My family was here before there was a United States to be kicked out of.
2006-09-23 14:32:33 · answer #10 · answered by Sugarface 3 · 9⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and now the US is an established country.
My great grandparents did...they respected the opportunity they were given. I do not see this at all today. Even in you...you condone the 3rd world influx to a 1st world.
2006-09-23 15:10:40 · answer #11 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋