2007-03-15
09:44:26
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Politics & Government
➔ Immigration
To pzk:Well i guess that would be the ones from Europe then huh?
2007-03-15
09:56:35 ·
update #1
We came here as Huguenots originally.
2007-03-15
10:33:45 ·
update #2
To Christina H: i don't like smarta55es(well.....yah i do), but not today. It was just a simple question.
2007-03-15
10:36:46 ·
update #3
My father in 1951, and my mothers parents in 1948. In neither case they snuck across a border, my father came from Italy when he was 3. My grandparents came from Scotland after WWII
2007-03-15 09:50:55
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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1600s, 1700s, 1800s & 1900s. Some came from Switzerland and England. Some came with the Pilgrams. Some were Minute Men and fought against the British. Some were pioneers and came across the plains out west.
They were good honest people that worked their butts off and came here legally and obeyed the law. They cared bout their new country and wanted to help it grow. They didn't sponge off the tax payer like the ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIMINALS do today.
My mother legally immigrated from Canada in about 1953. She died in 1957 before she had a chance to became a citizen. (I was 5 weeks old, born in California and my dad was a citizen - I'm not an anchor baby!)
2007-03-15 16:53:22
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answered by ? 4
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My father's family (my current surname) came in the 1660s to Virginia from England. My mother's Scottish family came around the time of the Irish potato famine so the immigration bureau dropped the "a" from the "Mac" since they couldn't tell the difference. Other Scottish relatives were here early enough to get her in as a Daughter of the American Revolution. Her Finnish ancestors were the most recent, her grandparents were from Finland and settled in Idaho because the winters reminded them of home.
2007-03-15 16:57:05
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answered by Crusader1189 5
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1) My Cherokee ancestors: LONG before the Europeans came here.
2) My Creek ancestors: See above.
3) My Irish ancestors were brought here, manacled and chained by James Oglethorpe, with the founding of the Penal Colony of Georgia. They had no say in coming to the New World.
2007-03-15 16:56:11
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answered by sjsosullivan 5
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descendant of slaves from South Carolina that were here since being bought over in the 1600's. Basic point, over 95% of Americans were born in the US. That 95% are not considered immigrants. The illegals coming over that were not born here use the united states population history as justification for their crime of illegal entry which is as frivolous as a dog in diapers. Like someone said above, when our ancestors came to the US, there were no borders or immigration laws. How can they compare such history that occured so long ago, hold it sufficient and correlate that to today's modern US government and policy?
2007-03-15 17:15:14
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answered by ♣DreamDancer♣ 5
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Most of my family came to America in the 1600's and 1700's according to my mother's extensive genealogical work. My direct ancestors all came from either Germany, Sweden and England.
2007-03-15 18:48:34
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answered by ♥austingirl♥ 6
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My mother's side of the family has been around for at least 250 years. My fathers family arrived from the Ukraine about 100 years ago. But, if this is about immigration, again someone is confusing immigration with illegal immigration, which the latter is the issue.
2007-03-15 16:49:28
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answer #7
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answered by CC 6
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Some as recently as 50 years ago and some as long ago as the last ice age across the Bering land bridge. Am I American enough for you?
Edit: OK, so I bit, sue me.. But these questions usually lead up to some tripe about how we should accept illegals. We're all immigrants, it's just how we go about it that is different. Some choose to break our laws and this really irritates me.
2007-03-15 17:28:10
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answer #8
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answered by Anonymous
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Earliest in the 1600's latest in the 1800s. All before there were subsidized services for the poor.
2007-03-15 16:47:51
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answered by DAR 7
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Part of my family is Iroquois Indian so I assume they were always here but the Irish and german ancestors came here in the 1900's and the Mexican and French ancestors came here in the 70's
2007-03-15 16:50:18
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answer #10
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answered by Anonymous
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