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Immigrants seated on long benches, Main Hall, U.S. Immigration Station. The 46-star American flag hanging from the balcony indicates that this photograph was taken between 1907 and 1912.
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People fill out application forms for the Obama administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012 at Navy Pier in Chicago.
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The pens at Ellis Island, main hall. These people have passed the first mental inspection.
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People fill the hall of St. Mary's Church attending an orientation workshop and legal clinic for potential deferred action applicants, on New York's Lower East Side, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012. Hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants scrambled to get papers in order Wednesday as the U.S. started accepting applications to allow them to avoid deportation and get a work permit under a new government program.
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History does indeed, repeat.
I love this country, I love what it stands for.
What we represent as a nation is our ability to accept anyone into our arms, and I believe the President was right in saying we should not deny opportunity for these young folks to eventually become what they already believe themselves to be:
Americans.
I hope the best for these young men and women, "yearning to breathe free."
For first time since Depression, more Mexicans leave U.S. than enter
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/for-first-time-since-depression-more-mexicans-leave-us-than-enter/2012/04/23/gIQApyiDdT_story.html
Too many forget that once upon a time we too were "foreigners".
And unwelcome by the locals, from Plymouth Rock to Ellis Island to Laredo.
And yet, here we all are: Americans.
Well actually, no. We are hyphenated Americans with our homeland listed first. Italian-American, African-American, Mexican-American. That effort to be diverse, was turned into a barrier to inclusiveness.
America is not really a nation, but a group of subcultures with little or no relations from one to the other. And yes, divided we'll fall.
Don't forget Shooter-American
I can understand the nativist fear of immigrants.
It must be terrible to have to compete with people who are so much less entitled, and so much more willing to work.
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NB: my most recent immigrant ancestors faced signs when they arrived "No dogs or Irishmen." My partner's ancestry is even more mixed, but some of hers had been here for thousands of years when others arrived as slaves.
Immigrants have always been good for the USA -- when we close the doors, we stagnate. Welcome aboard!
Hi,,,, can anyone here tell me why it is that when a cop pulls you over, their first question is always "do you know why I pulled you over?"? For a person such a mysef who believes every good question deserves a hundred stoopid answers,,, I keep finding my self looking into the abyss of tazzerland.
I am puzzled why anyone would want to put Romney in the White House to be in charge of tax reform...why on earth would he want to change it when he benefits from it so greatly....like putting the fox in charge of the hen house... And I certainly pay more then 13% in income taxes...no empathy here...and he didn't say "income taxes" either, but that was the impression I think we were supposed to get.
And I don't have sympathy for Mrs. Romney's whine that if more tax forms were released they would just be " picked" apart and used against them....if everything is in proper order, there would be nothing to "pick".
I think more should be made of the no-support from congress and the senate in the slow recovery...it irks me to hear the Romney campaign go on about Obama's failure....let them take some of the responsibility we all know they share from their congressional do-nothing attitude and actions.