04-11-2006, 05:20 PM
Occhidiangela,Apr 11 2006, 07:28 AM Wrote:The meme about "immigrants made America" is flawed due to expired context, and is part of a deliberate propaganda campaign.
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I think the point about "immigrants made America" isn't that you *need* them, but that you *are* them.
Unless you're full-blooded indigenous, you or your ancestors came to already-occupied land searching for opportunity (against the wishes of the occupants, in a great many cases). These are people trying to do the same, and now they are being kept out in the name of the great "we Americans," which is somewhat out of sync with the history of your country. The people whose "needs" are being considered has changed.
Not that your policy has to match your history, necessarily. Some people (myself included) just figure that it might be a good idea, in this case.
Why not just ease up the immigration laws? Then you could stop throwing around kill-on-sight strategies for getting rid of people who just want to make a living for themselves and their families. After all, the problem is that they're coming illegally, not that they're coming at all, right?
-Jester