@maxdancona,
maxdancona wrote:
Really? All of your ancestors descend from Revolutionary North America?
I can trace my heritage back to the Mass Bay colony in the 1600s on my father's side. I have European Ancestors that came in the early 1900s (at least two I am pretty sure were illegal).
The point is that it doesn't matter. We are all Americans, like it or not.
The idea that Northern European Protestants are any more American than Hispanic "Anchor Babies" is unconstitutional and un-American.
That is the true philosophical battle that we keep having.
From my fathers side, yes.
No one, that I have seen, has argued:
Quote:The idea that Northern European Protestants are any more American than Hispanic "Anchor Babies" is unconstitutional and un-American.
Their parents, on the other hand, are not and knowingly came across the border illegally. Sure, they were looking for a better life, a better place to raise their kids, a better job, etc. But, so are millions of other folks who are going through the right channels immigrating to the US legally.
Why should an illegal immigrant have preference or more rights or anything else over a legal immigrant? They wait years sometimes to come to America.
Oh, and no, illegal immigrants are not Americans unless they been sworn in as citizens so it does matter. There has to be a line in the dirt, this time literally, that says on one side is America and the other side is not.
