Is it true that we're all Immigrants ?
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I'm my opinion, if you were born here then no your not.. yes our ancestors may have been but you technically aren't..Saying we are just cuz our ancestors where is like saying that all black people are slaves just because some of there ancestors may have been. and i find that ridiculous..completely ridiculous..I'm proud to be born here and to be an American.. we should thank our ancestors for being immigrants.. not accuse each other of being immigrants..but with the whole battle going on right now.. i think that if you just simply wanna be a part of this country why is it too much to ask to do it legally? i mean seriously.. especially with all the terrorist stuff today.. wouldn't you want to know who was creeping into your backyard?
380478
He is a native American, being born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York, USA. \n \nAnd no, we are not all immigrants. I too was born here.
765390
everyone wants to be american...dont they?
481370
90% do apparently! A small statistic report. Though all may not be americans.
554661
All Americans are not immigrants. Most Americans are born American citizens. The settlers that came over were not immigrants, they were just settlers. The American Indians were settlers too. The land that is now America was merely unclaimed land, therefore not a country at the time. The ones who claim we are all immigrants are either ignorant or trying a diversionary tactic to excuse people invading our country illegally, namely the illegal aliens.
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Britain  is a country based on immigration if you trace your family tree far enough back i think you will find your ancestors were in fact immigrants of another country but that does not change the fact that we have too many people & not enough jobs or land to support ourselves in the avent of imports of food been stopped ,most immigrants come from countrys that are not as over populated as ours  we should not let them in if we do not have everything that we need & enough to  spare
816846
yes, every person is unique genetically, we are all different and the same, at the same time.
1176015
If you think about it,we are all "anchor babies".They are no different than us,their parents just had to make a hard decision about coming and being here illegally.
865147
The good thing: We are all Americans. The bad thing: NOBODY really looks at it this way anymore. We look at uorselves as AFRICAN Americans or MEXICAN Americans or WHITE Amercans or ASIAN Americans , and on and on and on .........WE SHOULD ALL BE PROUD WE ARE AMERICANS PERIOD!!!
760260
We are all immigrants, only the Indians were natives but with the Indians would been no cars, no roads, no planes, no tv, no nothing, so our descendants came and built this country from scratches to be the greatest in the world..☺
1178957
Absolutely!! We are a land of all people from all nations. We have thrived as a nation when people come here with hope in their eyes and put their energy towards building a better life for their families. There is a lot more room for a lot more. We only ask that you try to be assimilated into the great melting pot like the rest of us. \n\nThe illegal ones - man, we understand that life may be hard where you are. But there needs to be respect for the law. Unlike the corrupt regimes in so many places - like Mexico - the US is a nation of laws, not men. Maybe we need to change our laws on immigration to better accommodate the reality of how our world economy is working today. But we have to enforce the law and secure our borders. The stakes are as high as the World Trade Center used to be..
572046
I'm an immigrant too...they should treat us better. Afterall we help the economy of the United States, and this country is made up of immigrants.
168644
I'm proud to be a born an raised American. We stand up for ourselves not blowup ourselves. We educate our children not kill'em. We all live on the same planet an someone has to make sure YOUR kids have a world to live in. America is the land of free and opportunity. All the immigrants here can't complain, I mean come on...After all, they left their country to come to the States. U.S.A. ROCKS THE GLOBE!!
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No we're not a nation of 'immigrants'.  We welcome immigrants, but we're not all immigrants.\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. 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.\nSource(s):
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Wildfl0wer seems to be on this kick that since the US is the land of the free with justice for all that illegals can march into the country and do whatever the hell they feel like. Sadly, this common viewpoint, is however wrong. And very much so. \n\nNo, we are not all immigrants, no we did not all immigrate to the US at one point in time. Most africans were brought here as slaves, while quite a few irish and other caucasian nationalities were brought over as cheap labor or indentured servants. Others are descendents from the multitude of families that were the original founding families of this nation. In all cases that doesn't make them immigrants. This is just an ignorant pro-immigration arguement that is as tired as the day is long...\n\nYes, we would pick fruit and clean houses. Guess what, prior to the surge of illegal immigration and cheap under-the-table labor that the criminals(and you are criminals, you broke the law by coming here) brought to the states American citizens preformed those jobs on a daily basis. Don't believe you're special just because your people now seem to have the perverbial market cornered on that type of labor industry. We did it before, and I guarentee you that there are legal US citizens right now who would be damned happy to have that job.\n\nAnd onto the topic at hand, do these criminals have a right to protest? No, they do not. They have no rights as far as I'm concerned. They've done nothing to earn any rights or privledges other then the cost of a tank of gas to export them back to where they came from. \n\nIf we were to protest in half the countries that illegals come from we would be jailed or worse. \n\nAnd don't fool yourselves, when you're crying out against any sort of law that is pre-established by the governing system you are in fact protesting against that very government because they were the ones to make it. Don't try to cop an excuse that you're not protesting the government, just the law because they are the same thing. Any other belief is a fallacy of logic.\n\nUntil you have a green card that says you're a citizen, you have no rights or freedoms granted by the contstitution. And depending on your line of work, even then they don't apply to you. What gives me the right to even say this? Freedom of speech, because I *AM* a US citizen. And my job gives me the right because every day I go out to defend it against the people of this world who would like nothing more then to see America in ashes. \n\nI, personally, am tired of tax payer dollars wasted on those who don't pay taxes. The money spent to educate these criminals has much better potential of use by making changes and reforms in our existing education system and raising that to a level that's comprable to the rest of the world. Quit wasting money on illegals, put it to good use teaching our legal children.
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Uhhh hey smart one everybody who lives in America had descendants come from other countries. If you're not in America, oh well. I think modern day immigrants are the people who just got here and don't have green cards lol
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I Hear you, I believe that no matter what America belongs to everyone who is willing to live and work! Immigrants do not come to Live Free, we all come to live the American Dream which obiously has been torn and burned into pieces. Remember MLK said I HAVE A DREAM....