Hear! Hear! or is it Here! Here! not sure. Anyway, my mother was a German war bride, she came in through Ellis Island and my dad was in the US Army and met her over there right after the war. Yea, the 2nd world ward, I'm that old. Okay, she did her stuff to become a citizen, she memorized things, studied things, and then swore with 30 some other people to uphold this country. Just to find out that years before, my dad's family also immigrated here from Germany and did the Ellis Island thing. So they became US citizens. I was born in the USA, actually on an Army installation. I became a citizen automatically by birth. However, my husband and I were stationed in Germany and we had a daughter and she has dual citizenship. She was born in Heidelberg, Germany on a military base and therefore was considered to be a US citizen by birth to US citizens born abroad.
Okay, to make a long story short, I agree with immigration, just not the way it's being done. Don't come here and not having contributed to our countries economy expect to be supported by it. That's my only gripe.
Blessed be! Mab

I just have to shake my head at the way immagration works, I am total agreement with you two, the problem I have is if you immagrate to a country you should follow their laws and customs, we would have to do that if we moved to another country for example not to sound racist or anything but we have had east indians come here and join our military and they were allowed to wear their turbins while in uniform our government even went as far as making them special ones all because they said it was against their religous right, But any other member of the forces no mater what faith you follow are not allowed to have any religious items on their uniforms or have a necklace with say the catolic cross outside their uniform. It just makes me mad to see how we are made to look like the ones who are treated like were the immigrents when we were born here. Thats all I have to say on the subject for now.

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Cute poem, I actually had to concentrate on it to read it. Mab

My mother emmigrated from Holland with her family when she was in her teens. They didn't speak english. My family LEARNED to integrate into their new nation. They became Americans. They learned english. This didn't mean that they rejected their heritage, they just made an attempt to be full citizens of their new nation.

My biggest irritation is that this particular group of immigrants wants to make the country move to accomodate THEM, instead of the other way around. We have immigrants from all over the globe... asians, africans, euopeans, etc etc.... but it appears that a sizable portion of one group wants special consideration.

I'm not against immigration, my family did it. But they did it the right way, and they melted into the culture. The problem is that the "great melting pot" isn't melting anymore. They want to be taught in spanish, take their driver's test in spanish, they want the road signs to be in spanish... want to do their business and their shopping in spanish.... fly their homeland's flag as if they aren't really americans, but rather have allegiances to another country first and just happen to be living here because they get paid more.

When I was stationed in Germany, I made a full attempt to learn German because I felt it was the polite thing to do.

Other immigrant cultures have often made their own little islands of culture within america, we had "china towns" and "little italys", "pennsylvania dutch" and so on.... but I think they weren't as resistant to integrating into the greater american society as the current influx of latinos.