>>Yes, except for the fact that I was born here, which makes me a citizen. So was my parents and grandparents.
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>>That forward was a little more extreme than what I really feel. I am all for acceptable immigrants becoming legal, the main point being becoming legal. I'm not going to rehash this conversation. I shouldn't have posted that email... it just added fuel to the fire.
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>Okey, I say him/her who send that e-mail you. :)
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>Ask him, if his grand-grandparents came Amerika with passport or immigrant visa?

Better ask the Indians if they had passports or immigrantion visas. The fact is that with time laws change. At one time anyone could come to America to live, if you could get here. Then things became more difficult.

Sometimes a member or entire family would be sent back to where they came, due to illness or other reasons. Later quotas were established and we even had exclusion laws at one time. We have become more sophisticated with the passage of time and our laws reflect this.

When the Indians came here passports and visas were not required. The same is true of Americans who came since 1620 until more recent times.

The United States and Mexico fought a war and Mexico lost. We could have taken over Mexico but we instead took land and this is defined in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which was signed on February 2, 1848. The land included the Texas and California Territories.

Today there are groups of Mexican’s who want to take back these lands and consider them to be an extension of Mexico. But it was the Spanish who established these lands. What about them? Oh the Mexicans defeated Spain and took the land.

Well, it goes back and forth and times change. Nothing remains the same.