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Originally Posted by Blade7818
All this talk about legal and illegal immigration. Yes it's true that this country owes much to immigrants. But those people in the late 1800's and early 1900's were given "instant amnesty" because of the needs of Chinese labors on the railroads in the West, and Irish and German laborers in the factories in the East. They came in droves and were instantly amnestized and all were perfectly "legal" at the time. Now the laws have changed, and migrant workers are "illegal". There has been no change in the shift of populations, but only in the laws of this land. So to argue that the prosperity of this country is shouldered upon earlier immigrants who were "legal" is moot. Those immigrants would be considered just as illegal as today's Mexican immigrants.
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My family was FORCED to emigrate from their homeland. It didn't have as much to do with economics as it did with political and religious persecution.
Immigration is good.
Illegal immigration is a crime.
Some people seem to think that all these 'white' immigrants just got a free pass, and based on the color of their skin everything was just milk and honey for them.
I would suggest that the people that are claiming that these criminal aliens "just want to do the jobs that Americans won't" visit Ellis Island and see what hurdles that those legal immigrants had to got thru.
During the Potato Famine/English Genocide and Forced Diaspora of the Irish people, even though the people were literally starving to death, any of the Irish found to have even the slightest defect were forcibly repatirated to Ireland or England, where they invariably died of hunger.
The two things are not equivalent.