It seems that what she stands for is just no longer accepted by the majority of Americans these days. Maybe the French can find someone more deserving to give it to.
2007-10-16 10:11:07 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
I am very much an American, a vetran, and a proud member of our society. I am tired of all the complaining about immigrants. we are ALL immigrants, and we should not be telling all the folks who come into this country how to talk, what to do with their money, or what we expect from them.
2007-10-16 10:19:09 · update #1
i love immigrants. i married one.
americans have always had kind of a split-personality regarding immigration. we welcome them to our land of freedom, but don't welcome everybody and don't always treat them well once they get here.
we suspect them of heightened criminal propensity, fear the dilution of our culture, and worry that they will bring all sorts of horrible diseases. the irish were treated like slaves, the italians treated like mafia gangsters, jews distrusted, eastern europeans suspected of spreading communism, japanese locked in camps, chinese/asians blocked out. the immigration laws used to have limits based solely on country of origin because asians/africans/eastern europeans were less desireable than western europeans.
this debate is not new, it just has different faces.
the system is broken and needs to be fixed, but it won't be if we sit here shouting at each other.
2007-10-16 10:39:55 · answer #1 · answered by jealous elf 5 · 6⤊ 8⤋
Hopefully, you are wrong, despite all the current controversy. I'd like to make the point AGAIN, that I think the real issue is not immigrants, but illegal. However, if the real majority of the USA citizens really do have an issue with immigrants (since every last one of us is descended from immigrants, every last one, just in different periods of time), you might be right - it is terrible to think that a country we disagree with so much these days was wrong to give it to us in the first place - if I had these attitudes about immigration, I'd be ashamed, but then, that's just one opinion.
2007-10-16 10:20:10 · answer #2 · answered by marconprograms 5 · 7⤊ 2⤋
Why? It didn't say 'give us those who break our laws and sneak in or illegally overstay' anywhere on it, at all.
It is a nice momento of history, mind you it means something a little different now that Americans can't go up inside it any more, due to terrorism.
2007-10-16 15:43:02 · answer #3 · answered by DAR 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is illegal immigration that is the problem. They dont care what the Statue of Liberty stands for anymore than they care about our laws.
2007-10-16 11:40:11 · answer #4 · answered by mnwomen 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
It isn't the legal immigrants people are complaining about, it is the illegal immigrants people are complaining about. There is a difference. I was born in the United States. I am not an immigrant. I didn't leave any country to come to the United States so please do not call me an immigrant.
2007-10-16 10:25:22 · answer #5 · answered by Kagome 5 · 8⤊ 3⤋
My family was here before the statue of "liberty". We had founded Santa Fe and half a dozen other thriving colonial cities before the pilgrim's first humiliation at plymouth rock.
It's funny though, all the people who say "there is no hatred here..." I am a 8th generation CITIZEN of the United States of America, and a 19th generation citizen of New Spain. We did not immigrate, the United States did. We were absorbed and we never complained. But we do get treated like second class citizens. Not here in northern New Mexico, where I live. here if you are not hispanic you are the oddity, but in other places. You feel the looks, you feel out of place, and you know that even though you are allowed to be where you are, you are still anything but welcome. My english is perfect, as is my mother's and her mother's as well.
It's funny the looks I get after speaking with someone over the phone, when they meet me, they suddenly realize they were talking to a s*p*i*c.
P.P.S. saying that there is no hatred here is the same as the president of Iran denying the Holocaust happened. just because i say white people never owned slaves in Georgia, doesn't make it true. just like anglo and saxon americans. make yourselfs feel better by pretending it didn't happen, or denying culpability. pass the buck, it's the american way.
and one last thing... if you are anglo, saxon, italian, or anything other than hispanic/latino... and your family came to the southwest before 1848... you come from a line of illegals. criminals and deliquents.
2007-10-16 11:17:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 6⤋
You are nuts. The hatred is for ILLEGAL ALIENS not our wonderful legal immigrants. Your obfuscation shows your agenda. The Statue of Liberty is still a welcoming symbol to LEGAL IMMIGRANTS. No matter how you try to associate your criminal friends with these law abiding individuals, Americans aren't buying it. You may fool a few Europeans...but those of us here know EXACTLY what you are trying to do.
2007-10-16 11:14:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
There is NOT hatred toward immigrants. There is a lot of anger for illegal alien CRIMINALS. This anger is very well placed! ILLEGALS are breaking our laws and destroying our country.
Lady Liberty is welcoming all legal immigrants. She doesn't welcome criminals and she shouldn't!
You are correct in the fact that our ancestors were immigrants BUT THEY WERE LEGAL! WHAT PART OF ILLEGAL CAN"T YOU UNDERSTAND?
2007-10-16 11:39:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
You are an instigator and either not living in the US or possibly an illegal. There is no hatred of immigrants here. And by the way, the Statue of Liberty is awesome - hope you get there some day! - You have no idea what was behind the gift giving of the Statue of Liberty. How funny!
2007-10-16 10:15:44 · answer #9 · answered by subprimelendor 5 · 6⤊ 6⤋
I think you are confused about what the statue stands for - and it has absolutely nothing to do with immigrants. It did not arrive with that stupid Lazarus poem on it - that was added in the 1920's by a philanthropist and has absolutely nothing to do with our laws.
You might be an immigrant but I - like 80% of Americans - was born here.
2007-10-16 10:19:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 5⤋
No, we should deport the illegal aliens. The Statue of Liberty represents all the legal immigrants who have waited
patiently in line and entered our country at great sacrifice.
Only smugglers, drug dealers, and other law breakers sneak
across the border. If Teddy Kennedy will not offer them sanctuary in his home, then send them back.
2007-10-16 11:00:41 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 4⤋