They settled in Indian nations where they were not citizens, and refused to leave, right? Then they saturated the place and wiped them out. Isn't it hypicritical to complain about illegal immigrant taking American jobs or other resources, when illegal Pilgrims took Indian lives?
2007-01-30 12:00:24 · 8 answers · asked by Davin M 1 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
No. The Native Americans who lived here before the arrival of pilgrims and other such travelers had no 'idea' of private property or 'countries.' The land simply was there and they could share in it.
You can't illegally immigrate to a land where they don't see land as property and don't have laws to dictate what newcomers should do when they arrive there. In order for something to be 'illegal' there has to be a law against it. There was nothing wrong with us coming to America.
Nowadays though, we have a set system to enter the country. If a person chooses not to go through that system and enter the country anyway, then they have broken the law and are classified as an 'illegal immigrant.'
2007-01-30 15:50:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
They were definetly illegal immigrants. I'm so sick and tired of our children being taught in school how the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock and they came over here and simply started a new life. Without the Indians to show them how to plant corn they would have died of starvation. But our children are taught from early on that the Pilgrims had to help educate the "savages" on how to live. This country is based on illegal aliens. The Native Americans are the original founding fathers of this nation.
2007-02-02 14:44:33 · answer #2 · answered by frigginhilarious 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the pilgrims might have not been the "first" illegal immigrants, but there were illegal nevertheless. if they weren't illegal for going to america they sure were when going from england to amsterdam without documentation and most of all UNINVITED. but you will never hear that in a us history class..... and the pilgrims had NO INTENTION of assimilating into ANY CULTURE, rather be the dutch or the native americans. they didn't teach their children dutch nor did they want to be anything like the dutch. kind of like the illegal mexicans huh?
2016-03-28 21:33:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ahem. 1. We escaped religious persecution in England. America today accepts persecuted persons into the country. 2. We weren't asked to leave. That wrongly suggests a possessiveness on the part of the Indians. 3. Citizenship is a European concept, certainly not an Indian one. 4. We had a few settlements, hardly saturation. 5. Most of the "wiping out" was the unfortunate result of diseases, not armed conflict.
6. I can't follow your logic when you equate alleged taking of lives with taking jobs and resources. If you want to have a guilt trip about human migration but want to avoid hypocrisy, a good place to start would be by moving back to the Olduvai Gorge!
I have my own complaints about complaints about illegal immigration, which I'd love to share with you, but just now I want to catch the next hourly bus to Mohegan Sun Casino.
Happy 471st Anniversary of the Founding of Buenos Aires, Davin.
2007-02-02 03:53:51 · answer #4 · answered by Plimothy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Pilgrims were not illegal, there were no boundaries as such and only, here say laws, that were about as useful as changing weather....the Indians migrated from alot of different places...and if the Pilgrims were considered illegal then so would be the Indians..
2007-01-30 15:27:55 · answer #5 · answered by xyz 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The two don't even compare to each other.There were no immigration laws back then,today there are.I don't know why this tired excuse is always used to justify the illegal immigrants that have entered our country and broken our immigration laws.
2007-01-30 14:40:20 · answer #6 · answered by mizzjerry 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
from my ancestors point of view of course so then you can see why from history that illegal immigration is bad bad bad for everyone already in the land
2007-01-30 15:41:44 · answer #7 · answered by billc4u 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There has to be a law before it is illegal
2007-01-30 14:29:18 · answer #8 · answered by abby normal 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋