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Originally Posted by Hammer
PornoDoggy, just like Serge you're attempting to argue a point with points that have no correlation. We are talking about illegal immigrants that only come to this country to make money but have no intentions of making this country their home. The immigrants you are talking about looked at America as a brave new world and were proud to live here. They also became naturalized citizens and paid taxes just like everone else.
Sure they brought their cultures here and I have no problem with that. What I have a problem with is my government telling me that we must make schools bilingual and that stores must hang signs in more than one language and it's all for the ILLEGAL immigrants, not the ones that actually came here to live and work and become citizens.
Now, if you want to compare apples to apples, you should be talking about the immigrants that came here and ran the Indians onto reservations. Then you might actually have a point.
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If you don't see the correlation you choose not to. You continue to presume that bilingual signs are strickly for the illegals - and I don't think that's the case. I think it speaks more to the bias with which you approach the issue than to the actual facts.
The majority of the illegals today want the same think my (paternal) krauthead great-great-grandparents did in the 1890s, and for that matter the same thing as my (maternal) Quaker ancestors did. My dad's parents went to public schools that were bilingual (German and English). My great-grandfather, who was a member of several German organizations, had hassles during World War I not unlike what some Muslims had after 9/11. He had travel restrictions placed on him within the city of St. Louis, even though he had at least one son "over there."
Whether you like it or not, this whole debate is deja vu all over again - and your opinions would make you a perfect candidate for the No-Nothing party, circa 1850.
Your comment about the immigrants that came here to commit genocide on the native people, and run the survivors into reservations, doesn't really make any sense. When you get right down to it, though, illegal immigration is merely a case of the Chicanos coming home to roost. The Southwest, where they enter, is ours only because we stole it from them. They seem to be intent on taking it back.