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I fully agree with Wazobia, myself being also an immigrant (but in trouble through my own fault see www.wiZZar,com and holder of an O-visa, extraordinary abilities).
What we are experienceing and the root of all this animosity against immigrants is that it is no longer immigration but invasion. They do not assimilate, do not integrate but try to change the US to their ways and the Hispanics are most often mentioned here as they are the largest group, so large that it is a treath which tries to change the American culture. Indeed this has happened before, I am thinking now of the large Chinese influx during the explosion of the "iron horse" the train. They have now even have their own city within most cities, i.e. Chinatown in San Franciso and we think it pittoresque. BUT this is limited and even there one still can talk in English (broken sometimes but still possible).
I have been in a grocery store in Los Angeles for a little jar of instant coffee, they did not understand me because Espaniol only. I know of some blue collar workers who worked their whole life and now at last have their own home. However, during that time the whole neighborhood was taken over by immigrants and now the poor man cannot even talk to his neighbor because he is not understood. The whole neigborhood speak ONLY an other language, the stores sell ONLY things which are favored in another culture, this man is as a stranger in his own country. And then we are surprised there is animosity??
Also, and this is a thing which seems to be overlooked all the time. There is immigration and immigration. You have immigrants and opportunists. I explain and the root of the problem will become apparent. To me, and historically, an immigrant is somebody who wants to transplant his roots to another country, to go and live there FOREVER, be buried there, have his children and grandchildren grow up there. All the rest are opportunists who want to make a "quick buck" and then retire "rich" in their poor country. It are the latter who generate the problems as rhe first only wants to integrate, become part of his new country. THIS is a disctinction we all have to make and which seems to be overlooked all the time. I would say, immigration OK by all means but NO or very limited opportunism, they do not love this country but see it only as a "milk cow" to be used to the max and then killed off by going back to what has always been their home.
This disticntion can be rather easily made, first limit the greencard to a single term, maybe one extension and then: become citizen or - leave. Staying on a greencard is as staying in a motel, it implies temporary status, the term permanent resident should only be given to citizens. Also, the US is in dire need of an official language, such as all, or not most countries, that language being English (while we still have the voting majority). Also,although this is a whole other "kettle of fish" abolish dual citizenship, dual nationalities.
These measures would go a long way to ease the immigration problem, those who would be imigrating would be immigrants true to the definition of the term and as all the forefathers of the Americans have been at one point or the other. The others would be categorized as they are: guest workers.
I fully agree with Wazobia, myself being also an immigrant (but in trouble through my own fault see www.wiZZar,com and holder of an O-visa, extraordinary abilities).
What we are experienceing and the root of all this animosity against immigrants is that it is no longer immigration but invasion. They do not assimilate, do not integrate but try to change the US to their ways and the Hispanics are most often mentioned here as they are the largest group, so large that it is a treath which tries to change the American culture. Indeed this has happened before, I am thinking now of the large Chinese influx during the explosion of the "iron horse" the train. They have now even have their own city within most cities, i.e. Chinatown in San Franciso and we think it pittoresque. BUT this is limited and even there one still can talk in English (broken sometimes but still possible).
I have been in a grocery store in Los Angeles for a little jar of instant coffee, they did not understand me because Espaniol only. I know of some blue collar workers who worked their whole life and now at last have their own home. However, during that time the whole neighborhood was taken over by immigrants and now the poor man cannot even talk to his neighbor because he is not understood. The whole neigborhood speak ONLY an other language, the stores sell ONLY things which are favored in another culture, this man is as a stranger in his own country. And then we are surprised there is animosity??
Also, and this is a thing which seems to be overlooked all the time. There is immigration and immigration. You have immigrants and opportunists. I explain and the root of the problem will become apparent. To me, and historically, an immigrant is somebody who wants to transplant his roots to another country, to go and live there FOREVER, be buried there, have his children and grandchildren grow up there. All the rest are opportunists who want to make a "quick buck" and then retire "rich" in their poor country. It are the latter who generate the problems as rhe first only wants to integrate, become part of his new country. THIS is a disctinction we all have to make and which seems to be overlooked all the time. I would say, immigration OK by all means but NO or very limited opportunism, they do not love this country but see it only as a "milk cow" to be used to the max and then killed off by going back to what has always been their home.
This disticntion can be rather easily made, first limit the greencard to a single term, maybe one extension and then: become citizen or - leave. Staying on a greencard is as staying in a motel, it implies temporary status, the term permanent resident should only be given to citizens. Also, the US is in dire need of an official language, such as all, or not most countries, that language being English (while we still have the voting majority). Also,although this is a whole other "kettle of fish" abolish dual citizenship, dual nationalities.
These measures would go a long way to ease the immigration problem, those who would be imigrating would be immigrants true to the definition of the term and as all the forefathers of the Americans have been at one point or the other. The others would be categorized as they are: guest workers.
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