Unless we have Indian/Mexican ancestry aren't we all immigrants...think about it.?

Question

Key words people miss would be immigrants...not speaking of illegal/legal. Indiginous people, you know?

Answer 1

We are all immigrants. Then when you start asking about who was here first everyone becomes 1/4 cherokee.

Face the facts folks. The great majority in the US are immigrants or came from immigrants. There were no white indians here so get over yourselves. Secondly why is it everytime someone posts any question here someone has to go off on an ILLEGAL THIS OR THAT rant? There was a lady that posted earlier that was asking about how to immigrate to the US and here comes the keyboard commandos....."only if you arent illegal"!

Remember your parents and ancestors did the hard part so don't look down on others with this holier than thou attitude.

Answer 2

You were standing behind the door when they passed out the bags of logic, weren't you?

Immigrants come into a place. Native-born people are born in the place. If you were born in Mexico and come here, you are an illegal immigrant. (Assuming there is no green card in the picture.)

Mexicans are the result of the interbreeding of native American peoples (such as the Aztecs) and Europeans such as, historically, the Spanish conquistadors and, more recently, what you would call gringros. Thus according to your extremely deficient logic, Mexicans are immigrants -- even in Mexico.

Put that in your crack pipe and smoke it.

Answer 3

No. The only people who are immigrants are people who were born in another country, then migrated here. ( Hence where the word "immigrant" gets formed, from migrant or migratory.) Indians and Mexicans were the only indigenous people at one time, but enough time has passed, enough generations have been born here.

My son asked me once what we are and I thought it an odd question. We are American.....what else would we be? We were born here.

Answer 4

Yes. But unlike the 12 million undocumented, visa-less, unmonitored illegal aliens from other countries now living inside the US, most of our ancestors arrived as legal immigrants with papers.

12 million people! That's about the size of Tokyo.

Answer 5

Um, ok, the indians lost all their wars to the United States, Mexico City was occupied by first the United States, then by FRANCE, I guess you can have some props for rooting for the underdog, but all the relevant treaties governing the outcome of those wars were signed in the 1800's. Time to get that job, and support the US Border Patrol!

Answer 6

Not this argument again. It's got to be the stupidest one on this forum.

At what point did the peoples you speak of SPRING out of the ground in North America? NEVER!!!

I was born here. Therefore, I cannot be an immigrant. How hard is that to understand?


indigenous: originating in a particular region or country; native

native: being the place or environment in which one was born

immigrant: one who immigrates into a country

immigrate: to come into a country of which one is not a native


Still confused?

Want to try to tell me how I am an immigrant when the last four generations of my family have been born here? And I have never even been to a foreign country?

Answer 7

Do you even know the definition of the word immigrant.......i bet you dont so here is a attachment from the dictionary for you to know so in the future you will now and not ask a stupid question again

immigrant
Main Entry: im·mi·grant
Pronunciation: 'i-m&-gr&nt
Function: noun
: one that immigrates : as a : a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence

Thus anyone born in the USA IS NOT A IMMIGRANT they are see below for the answer
Main Entry: 1na·tive
Pronunciation: 'nA-tiv
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English natif, from Middle French, from Latin nativus, from natus, past participle of nasci to be born -- more at NATION
1 : INBORN, INNATE
2 : belonging to a particular place by birth
3 : belonging to or associated with one by birth
synonyms NATIVE, INDIGENOUS, ENDEMIC, ABORIGINAL mean belonging to a locality. NATIVE implies birth or origin in a place or region and may suggest compatibility with it . INDIGENOUS applies to species or races and adds to NATIVE the implication of not having been introduced from elsewhere . ENDEMIC implies being peculiar to a region . ABORIGINAL implies having no known race preceding in occupancy of the region .

Answer 8

Yes we are all immigrants, but there is a difference between legal and illegal immigrants.

Answer 9

No!! We all came from Neanderthals!! Hmm, the Neanderthals knew nothing better as immigrants are not exclusively Ameriindian or Mexicans.

Answer 10

Mexican people also aren't native,they are the result of the Spanish coming to their part of the world and slaughtering millions of Indians as they conquered them and took their land, and then bred into their society,sound familiar? I'm sure you've heard it before but it only counts if you're white apparently.