the native americans never invited the europeans to their land.....
120017
unwanted immigration is different than illegal immigration. i assume you are trying to defend the hispanics crossing the border. i have no problem with them crossing the border as long as they pay taxes too. they recieve healthcare, education, and even social security - but pay nothing into the system. THERES A REASON WERE 7 TRILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT (other than the war). we should consider a high sales tax and no income tax - that way everybody is paying, and based on how much they spend too.
238871
You watch to much TV. When the settlers first came not all were unwelcome by the Indians-there was plenty of land. The settles brought things the Indians wanted. Fighting did not start right away. My family was from the Kickapoo tribe-you need to know your history better.
584896
Good Point!!\n\nIf you're not a buffalo, or a rabbit or a tree, STOP complaining, this land wasn't yours either!!\n\n:P
486759
considering not one of them was alive when whites took their land i dont' see what they have to be sad about ~
269083
I wonder if the original native Americans (Red Injuns as you called em) had a say in the matter when the whites from across the ocean invaded their country and all but exterminated them.\n\nYou, dear person are also a descendant of immigrants yourself, I'm sure, as are most of the white and black American folks replying to you, unless you are of Native American descent (which I am sure you would not be proud to proclaim, if you were). Even the guys who came over on the Mayflower, they initiated the unjustness by being the harbingers of terror that culminated in the annihilation of native Americans\n\nI wonder when the Caucasian will ever get over the white 'massa' superiority complex?\n\n\nAmerica has been drawing people from all over the world, right from the days of it's discovery as a land with the fabled pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Give it some more time, you'll end up with an exodus of people, as is happening among the immigrants from India which is gaining from the Brain Gain as opposed to the earlier brain drain.\n\nI remember when my cousin migrated to the US in the seventies, people had similar complaints about the Indians.\n\nTh reverse is happening now, a number of western countries have their top people insisting on an India stint, and the Indians, well they wanna come back to their roots\n\nst\n====================================================\nManicman:\nGive them time to, well assimilate!, as did most American forefathers! Let them understand that this (taxes, education and stuff like that) would be good for them, if you try to drive em out and hound them and try all the racism, then you are just going to increase the hatred, and have them doing stuff  like propogating the Mexican flag. \n\nDon't you understand that if you corner anybody, that being is going to cry out for help, and that's what they are doing, making the world aware of their plight by waving the Mex flag and burning the Stars and Stripes? What better way to come on prime time news than this?
9004
because theyre the french and theyre ungrateful for all we've done for them, i mean we could've had them speaking german if we wouldnt have stepped into the european theatre in ww2. also i think theyre really proud of their heritage since they always say americans have no heritage..
367154
NO!!\nOMG!! S.O.S.!!(same old $h*t) The dinosaurs were here then the prehistoric man walked across the Bering Straits during the last Ice Age (15,000 to 30,000 years ago)and became the oldest KNOWN inhabitants of the North American continent. The Europeans came, saw and conquered the Native Americans (cruelly and unjustly). There were no laws on immigration at that time.  The Europeans formed a government, voted, elected leaders, passed laws, built this country from a wilderness. Those people passed a law later on immigration. That law says you must enter by legal means. Documents must be filed, legally processed, they must pass citizenship tests and be sworn in under oath before a person can be a citizen. It is an expensive, time consuming process. It is that way for a reason. People must be screened, their criminal records checked, medically checked for disease.\n\nI am a Native American. See that word "AMERICAN". That means I am a citizen of the USA. I am a natural born citizen. Those people who's ancestors came here are natural born citizens, too. They are NOT immigrants. You might be, but they aren't. Immigrants are people who were not born citizens. They are from another country. If they become citizens and have children here, their children are NATURAL BORN CITIZENS, not immigrants, either. Immigrants have been welcome in the USA. But our country can not take 800,000 immigrants every year and have the resources to sustain that many people. We must reduce immigration of all kinds back to 200,000 people per year or this country will be another third world nation by 2050. I don't think even the illegals would like that.
279258
ask the native americans who have been here for 30,000 years!!!!!!
582164
First, most native tribes' reservations sit on land that they had no stake in when their ancestors lived here.\n\nSecond, they are not the real owners of this land. The land now known as the U.S. was taken by force or bought from others who took it by force. Conquest and purchase has always been the accepted practice for gaining territory. It's simply the way of the world. The Indians fought over land with each other before we ever got here and we took it from them by force.\n\nThey don't deserve to have their land back, but they don't deserve to be segregated away on a reservation either. They should have been integrated into our society like every other person.
661593
The native people were peaceful and friendly. Stealing horses was a game between tribes. Most did not war. Once the Europeans came they wanted it all and they had guns and whiskey. Between the diseases and whiskey and guns they conquered and killed.Sad. However the native Americans are getting theirs back. They are opening casinos on their reservations and taking all the white mans money.  Payback!!!
261891
DEAR HEAVENS!!  To the person who said something about forefathers, your logic is not flawed ~ it is non-existent!\n\nWhen the SETTLERS came here, they came to SETTLE.  Did they do the indigenous peoples wrong?  After a while, without question they did.  However, that is not the point right now.\n\nThe point is that there was, at *that* time, ROOM here.  People could go carve their world out of pieces of wilderness, risking life and limb on a daily basis.  They could worship freely; they could hunt and feed their family without fear of being sentenced to death for it; and on and on it goes.\n\nWe no longer NEED any more people here.  We're loaded to capacity as it is.  Every Country should do its best to improve itself and the citizens of that Country should HELP ~ not go elsewhere and burden another Country.\n\nIn answer to the actual question:  I don't think we should keep our borders open.  In fact, I think they should be closed until our current crises are repaired.  Once repaired, we could re-open our borders with more stringent and specific laws.  As another Responder said on another question, if we need an example of how to limit immigration, we need look only so far as the Mexican Constitution and their requirements for citizenship.\n\nTO TOPCAT420:  Amen!  I have difficulty justifying "fixing" things for other Countries when we have so much fixing we need to do right here!  I have long been a believer in restoring more lands to the Native American people, along with any and all mineral rights thereto.  And that's why i said we are loaded to capacity as it is!  We have enough for now.  We need to right a whole list of wrongs committed against the Native Americans, we need to stop children starving here in the U.S., we need to clean up our own interurban areas .. we have a LOT to do at home, for ourselves and by ourselves, before we can consider re-opening borders and helping others.\n\nThe U.S. has helped others until we've helped ourselves right into a hole.
220869
FIRST THANK YOU. The Indians were not Native to America. Evolution has it that everyone came from Africa. do we know that as fact? No. But that is getting off the question. Thank you again for clarifying that Indians are not native.
103694
Im not a Native American, but I do live in Alaska, and I  am proud to be an American. Im not sure why the person you talked to was bitter about the way Alasksn's are treated, but I have no complaints. It's just a little boring here :)
648118
native Americans died from the same things as other cultures.  use your imagination.  . They had added pressure of course from Europeans stealing their land and sending them off to reservations in the middle of nowhere.  Look up 'trails of tears' in an encyclopedia.  When they were thrown off their lands many died from disease, exhaustion and just pure sadness as not only did they lose their homeland but also their way of life. i.e. tribes in the north east , who farmed and fished were moved to the desert, where they could not pursue their old way of life.  The land they were moved to could not sustain them and although the government allocated money and food these were often stolen - often by the people who were supposed to deliver them.
279936
You are right. If you know history you can see the only Americans that lived there all their lives are the navajos, siouxs, cheyennes, etc. \n\nSo I do not see them protesting... do you?
655239
i m not surprised that you have no job may be you should try Europe since it so great. Mexicans have been in California and America for many thousands of years. if you dint like them then why are you here squatter.your family got so called legal status in a month , fraud  that's only because of the corruption in power.\nby the way their are way more Anglos here than native American so who is the trespasser. since you like analogies so much here one for you and your buddies\nif someone brakes into your house and land then claims its theirs because they have stolen it for along time. if they don't give it back they are guilty for the crimes the peoples did in the first place to attain it. so if your a new immigrant with no connection to the invaders of 1492 and their descendant then you have no say in this matter.
339746
The entire point of the Constitution was to separate us from a European point- of -view! Our founders were so disgusted by the imperial British, French, Spanish, Prussian, Hungarian monarchical incest and interbreeding, as well as the constant state of war on the Continent, that they created an entire system from scratch that was NOT European. Soooo, who gives a rat's patootie WHAT the Euros think? No one is fighting to emigrate to Poland, are they?