Can one person...just one...tell me how I am an immigrant?

Question

I was born here...

My parents were both born here...

My grandparents...all 4 of them were born here...

In fact all of their parent were born here....

I keep hearing that "we are all immigrants"....BUT...this is waht the definition of immigrant is...

im·mi·grant Show Spelled Pronunciation[im-i-gruhnt]
–noun
1. a person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence.
2. an organism found in a new habitat.

–adjective
3. of or pertaining to immigrants and immigration: a department for immigrant affairs.
4. immigrating.

So...just one person tell me how I am an immigrant....these proamnesy types like to scream "but we are all immigrants"...

So??? What is it?

Answer 1

I was waiting for someone to say that "we" stole the land from the Indians. That raises the question; how far back do you go? The native indians can trace their roots to the asian continent and came across a land bridge to get here. They also had cultures that thrived and died, and wars where their territory changed hands long before we got here. If you're going to pick dates, the arguement loses credibility.

Answer 2

Answer: Just for stuff and giggles! As I remember the bible stories…We all go back to Adam and Eve…No wait! Then there was that flood thing, two of each kind and basically flush the rest. Anthropologists divide humans into four basic groups that for all intent and purpose…Spread Out. Everywhere. Be it paddling a log or walking a land bridge that no longer exists, historically we ALL can trace our roots back to somewhere else. That being said, it makes sense to me, that one is native of where they are born, with ancestry that could be traced back as far as…Well, See The Above. The concept of incest for purists must be as staggering as the hoops one must jump through to claim a land in which you were not born as their own.
Conclusion, One is native to where THEY were born! Once they up and go somewhere else they are immigrants.

Answer 3

You are not an immigrant, even if someone in your ancestry was. No one is indigenous to this continent! Not even the Native Americans they immigrated. too. But once established in this country, and being born of legal citizens in this country you are not an immigrant! Neither you nor I have made a trip to get here and none of our close family generations did either! We are native Americans!

Answer 4

The fine line between considering race and migratory history is the guillotine blade. I choose to meet individuals, who for the moment are geographically in proximity to me. Were that freedom to choose be removed by war or law, I want to remember that we are all brothers and sisters, genetically at least. When individuals become a mob, that freedom to meet individuals disappears.
In my opinion, "We are all immigrants" is a means of identifying within us the underlying desire to express compassion toward the antagonistic events threatening us daily. Some turn to G_d for release. However some turn to addictive substances, some to violence whether vicariously or participatory, for the release.
Here's a plan. Remove race, and religious fervor, the bare facts of cultural, and natural resource status are the only motives for war.

Oh yeah; screaming is a poor method of attempting to use 'force' on the audience; to force them to listen. The emotional component of our intellect is not very reasonable, nor logical. And mental illness is rampant in our society, news at eleven.

peace out

Answer 5

I may have ancestors that immigrated here, however I tell them that back then there were no illegal immigration laws and many had to register upon arriving to Ellis Island.

http://www.ellisisland.org/genealogy/ellis_island_history.asp

This is an interesting history lesson for them, and furthermore the LEGAL immigrants that came to Ellis Island went through much worse hardship to get here than those that just run across the border. Please read.

Answer 6

The same goes for me my family was born in America when it is part of Mexico my roots are deep in the Southwestern soil of Arizona And New Mexico. What is meant by this is that we are a nation of immigrates that someone in your family immigrated to the United States be it a month ago or 250 years ago, that those who's families came to these shores from other lands want to deny, others the same privileges their families had. If one is not of full Native American blood, as myself, I am only half native American. Then we to were immigrants to these shores.

Furious george
Whites came to these shores 500 years ago (Spanish)

Tlapacoya Site in central Mexico, Bones when found and carbon dated 21,700 years ago.

The oldest human skull found in America, Luzia Brazil: confirmed to be 11,000 years old.

The Big Eddy site in Missouri, 5 different samples have been AMS dated between 11,300 BP to 12,675BP.

Recent studies of the mitochondrial DMA of First Nation/native American suggest that the people of the new world may have diverged genetically from Siberians as early as 20,000 years ago.

So I think you are talking so apples and oranges, Remember the United Nations Gave Israel Its homeland in 1947 and they had lost it 2000 years ago.

Your assumptions dose not hold water.

Answer 7

Your ancestors may have been immigrants, you are not. That is a pro-illegal lie to discount the fact that we have 20 to 30 MILLION illegal immigrants in this country.

If "we are all immigrants" then it is OK that they are here. WRONG! It is NOT OK for them to be here illegally.

Answer 8

I have to agree & disagree with your answer. I think its unfair the conditions of some of the poor countries, those in war etc however if the government were to allow immigrants then ther country would be overun and the taxes can not support all those people. However if the country is able to look after itself then it can provide allsorts of aid to other countries, as indeed it does. I am undecided, at the end of the day if you were given the choice to open the flood gates so the country ends up in a mess, companies stop investing in the UK, in years to come we could be like a 3rd world country. Now would you give up your heated office & cup of tea? You are right there are lots of British people sponging of the government and that should be fixed, how can the UK help others properly if it can't sort its own problems. I feel sorry for immigrants but the UK has enough of its own problems and we are a tiny tiny island in the world why should we shoulder the burden when the larger more affluent countries dont such as the USA, Austrialia, Dubai etc

Answer 9

Technically all of our ancestors if you go back far enough are immigrants. The so called natives just beat the rest of us.

Answer 10

Wee-ll ----- unless your are a Native American Indian, your ancestors had to come from SOMEWHERE! lol
So in that way, yes, our families immigrated here from other countries. WE were born here, but our forefathers were not.