From what I understand, the Pilgrims just sort of showed up at Plymouth. I don't think they had visas. Perhaps illegal immigration should have been addressed then.
Happy Thanksgiving!
2007-11-22 14:20:49 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
The land was that of the Native People's. Just because they didn't have a European system of laws didn't make it any less theirs or necessarily free for the taking. However, that is ultimately what happened.
2007-11-22 14:27:21 · update #1
No, anyone born on American soil I consider to be here legally even if their parents weren't.
2007-11-22 14:28:43 · update #2
That is a good point.
I hope it gives rise to some serious thought .
I know you are going to get some doozey answers.
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2007-11-22 14:22:51 · answer #1 · answered by bgee2001ca 7 · 6⤊ 5⤋
America as it ultimately came into being did not exist at the time. It did not have an immigration policy, there were no agencies or enforcement procedures in place. No visas. Nothing. So the question, while intending to be cute and clever, is pretty dumb.
2007-11-22 16:39:22 · answer #2 · answered by Toodeemo 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
we all decended from illigal immigrants. it's what made our society rich and vibrant no matter how much it seems like it is Mexicans or some other sort of people doing things to make our country bad, our country was bad from the beginning, lets face it we may be the richest country in the world, but we sure put things out of proportion sometimes, for instance inflation. but that is a different subject so lets not get into that one...
2007-11-22 14:25:53 · answer #3 · answered by Brandon 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
genuinely all of it started contained in the Inca and MAyan situations...celebrating could day--replaced into dancing around a could pole--a phallic image for penis-fertility--. Their infants might dance around the phallic pole--to enlist desire from the Gods to offer bounty of their vegetation for the season. yet on your question: whilst has obama and his base carried out something professional-American for the reason that he replaced into employed? Obama's heroes are Chavez, Che, Castro, Chairman Mao! Obama is our Chavez--regrettably--u.s. is in genuine undertaking.
2017-01-06 00:24:53 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tecumseh, a Shawnee leader who organized opposition to forced Native American colonization, showed his insight into the ugly aspect of America when he spoke to the Osage tribe in 1812. In his speech, he said, "Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled, they are feeble and harmless; but invigorate them with warmth, and they sting their benefactors to death."
Driven by a psychotic hubris, our leaders were convinced that America had the right and the duty to "civilize" the rest of our continent with our "superior" Democratic and Protestant ideals. Sound familiar? America began unleashing its imperialistic impulses on sovereign nations in 1846. President James Polk annexed Texas , and sent American troops to help this future state gain its independence from Mexico . Two years and 38,000 dead combatants later, America brought Mexico to its knees, and proudly included Texas , New Mexico , and California in its borders. Robbing the Native Americans of their land was not enough to satiate the appetites of our imperialist leaders for "White" conquest.
William McKinley came to office in 1896 to preside over a country that still had a ravenous appetite for expansion. Under McKinley, the US waged war against Spain in Cuba . America drove the Spaniards out, leaving a power vacuum that was quickly filled by greedy US corporations. 500,000 Filipinos were killed as America wrested the Philippine Islands away from Spain . Our government justified their deaths by proclaiming that the American victory would enable the US to civilize the savages in the Philippines . McKinley also arranged for the annexation of Hawaii and Puerto Rico during his unprecedented advance of the cause of Manifest Destiny.
2007-11-22 14:31:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Perhaps but would we all be hear now if they did? Anyways imigration did not really become a problem until the later half of this century, when all our recent ancecors voted to slow the traffic of people becoming citizens and to make sure bad people stay out. You know like murders and drug dealers... You know cause we dont want a person who killed his family and then decided to come here to keep from being hung at the stake or face the fireing squad.. Think About it =)
2007-11-22 14:26:40 · answer #6 · answered by Poppy 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Well...the pilgrims were not illegal immigrants. One they had a legal charter to settle their colony. Two the Indians did not own the land, they just lived off it. Three the Indians had no country with established borders and a written set of laws.
2007-11-22 14:27:43 · answer #7 · answered by null_the_living_darkness 7 · 4⤊ 5⤋
In the beginning they came as "illegal immigrants" in a land that was not a sovereign country. However the settlers established themselves later as conquerors. Kinda like the way Mexico is taking back California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas in a sovereign country.
2007-11-22 14:27:05 · answer #8 · answered by JAMES H 2 · 0⤊ 6⤋
I'm happy to celebrate any day that I get paid and don't have to go to work.
As for classifying people from a past time period using laws that were not written during their time period... I think that's a bit of a stretch. I'm sure you're committing at least one fallacy in there.
2007-11-22 14:25:32 · answer #9 · answered by John 1 · 3⤊ 4⤋
The native Americans you speak of immigrated here as well from mongolia. Maybe you have have studied harder in history class....
2007-11-22 15:52:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
To be an illegal immigrant they would have to have had some form of government authorirty to establish laws and citizenship and the like.
2007-11-22 14:25:30 · answer #11 · answered by Anime_Warrior 2 · 2⤊ 5⤋