I think this article says quite a bit about the ongoing immigration debate currently rolling through congress and why I agree with President Bush and his latest suggestions for reforming immigration here in the U.S.
Sometime people seem to forget that America (The U.S.) was built by immigrants.
Even early America was populated by non-idiginous peoples,
(most people now believe that the native americans-indians-came from Asia at the time the Bearing Strait was still a land mass connecting our two continents) so to even think of closing our borders to people who are not citizens and who wish to come here to have a chance at a better life is completely opposite of what it means to be "an american".
We are indeed a nation of immigrants. Just because a lot of us were born in this country, a lot more of us were not.
I am only a 4th generation American myself (at least on one side) as my great grandfather on my mother's side came over to this country in the late 1800's as a young man from Germany.
And on my father's side I think it was maybe one generation earlier where my great great grandparents came from a part of what was then Poland.
Read the story below as reported by the New York Times and let the words sink in for a bit.
The Day an Immigrant Refugee Can Say, 'I'm an American' - New York Times
A good Friday to all.
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