Please only read and answer this question if you are willing to discuss the issue civilly and intelligently.
America's history is built upon mass immigration: unless you're Native American your family came here recently. The difference with immigrants today is that the nation is no longer expanding, and no longer has a frontier to colonize. Before, we could handle all the population growth we could get, and prosper from it, but we are no longer expanding and have limited resources.
What are your thoughts on how (or if) this changes the effects of immigration from what they were while the US was expanding?
2006-11-27 17:41:57 · 9 answers · asked by Free Ranger 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Historic immigration is irrelevant because there was no welfare state and subsidized services. The Native American bit was conquest as they got the territories from each other, to begin with.
We can't pay to educate the world's poor and still take care of our own. Schools are failing and hospitals are closing. We ignored a few hundred thousand, and gave amnesty to a few million, only to find many of them became 'bases' to bring in more illegal friends and relatives. Now there are 11 to 20 million and it is a major crises in areas where they concentrate.
It isn't just 'entry' although I think we have every right to say that we want to maintain our own culture, as well, because we like it that way. It is SUBSIDY of education at the expense of our children and health care at the expense of our sick.
Their better life is at our expense.
2006-11-28 03:20:19 · answer #1 · answered by DAR 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. There is no such thing as Native American as you use the term. My family came here in 1895, I am 3rd generation born and a Native American.
2. We can still handle large immigrants coming here, but legally.
3. What part of illegal is not getting into peoples heads?
2006-11-28 02:49:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Immigration is not only for expanding or populating the earth. With them come ideas and new way of doing things. In most cases it betters the country they come to.
2006-11-28 01:45:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
You've nicely nailed the present problem. Our 'quotas' need to be adjusted downward and illegals need to be stopped at the borders, those already here returned like redeemable pop bottles.
2006-11-28 01:50:07 · answer #4 · answered by Beejee 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Almost everyone came here though ellis island. The people were screened in many ways before they were accepted. many were turned back.Watch the history channel you might learn something
2006-11-28 07:39:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Regulate immigration since there are no more frontiers to offer for development and expansion.
2006-11-28 01:46:23 · answer #6 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, you are right but the founding fathers wanted the USA to be the place of immigration and hope, not an isolationist country who turns aways people who want an better life or who are seeking asylum from their own countries.
There are still millions of acres in the US that are not inhabited.
2006-11-28 01:46:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
this reminds me. you illegal imigrants who are mexican.NEED to wear rubber.I know it's says in your religion not to and it says if you get pregnant you were meant to be bull crap, but i'm tired of you guys haveing 10 kids. soon there are going to be so much ppl that global warming is gonna kill us all.
2006-11-28 01:50:48 · answer #8 · answered by TheIceAlchemist 1 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The key word is "illegally"~ past -present, or future!
2006-11-28 01:46:23 · answer #9 · answered by phallicasm 2 · 5⤊ 1⤋