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My wife is an immigrant and naturalized citizen. And an argument to end immigration completely.
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This^^ is my best laugh of the day so far. Good one!

am i glad I didn't immigrate to EU , Saudi Arabia or Egypt.

Ditto this for me. Grandparents came over and learned the language, became citizens, sent sons to fight in WW2 (my dad was one), made a good living by working hard.....

and as my Mom still says that

"when my grandparents needed a helping hand they looked no further than the end of their own arm"

Nope. The last of my family to emigrate did so from Ireland in the 1840’s. It was my GGG grandma escaping the famine while 9 months pregnant, she died while giving birth and never made it to Ellis Island.

All my other kin had been here since before the Revolution and a direct ancestor of mine, Matthew Thornton, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, his is the last signature on it.

My roots as a free man and proud American run deep. 😉

From watching the news I feel like I emigrated without going anywhere...
What happened?

Mom's side ..hiked a leg on Plymouth rock....

lol

on my mom's side, my grandfather was Lipan Apache my grandmother and great grandmother came from Spain when my grandmother was 12, dads side Scott came before the revolutionary war.

10th Great Grandfather emigrated, moved, relocated to this Continent from England in 1634................

We emigrated from Germany in 1956, when I was 1 YO. I am a naturalized citizen.

My Mom came from a German community in Yugoslavia, and my Dad from a German community in Hungary, near Budapest. After WW2, the Partisans forced my Mom's family out and my Dad's family got 'lucky' and left Hungary shortly before the Russians locked it down, having to leave a 4 acre farm behind, that was in the family for generations.

At the time, in order emigrate to the USA, it was a very long process, taking a year or more. So, one night in October 1956, sitting around the dinner table with all the family, my Dad, age 26, says he is going to move to the USA with, Mom, my 5YO sister, and me, the infant. Since he knew it would take a long time for approval, he felt safe with this comment.

Lo and behold, we got approval in late January 1957, and by early February we were in NYC. Our 'sponsor' dropped us off at a hotel and we never saw him again. After a week in NYC, we headed to Chicago via train, as the parents did not like NYC.

At the train station in Chicago, with no clue where to go and not speaking any English, a German walking past heard their plight and helped us to get to a hotel, and over the next several weeks, helped us get an apartment, among other things.

My Mom's bio-Dad was caught setting snares for rabbits, on the Royalty Lands, and was executed for it.

My Dad's Dad, was conscripted into the German Army in 1944, and sent to the Russian Front. He never came home again as was presumed KIA. Fast forward to 1961/62, or so, and there was a German soldier that had escaped from a Russian POW camp about that time, and made his way to Germany. Long story short, he said my Grandfather was still in the prison and was a cook, and in good shape.

The German community in Chicago tried to get answers, but the Russians said there had been a POW camp there, but they closed it after the war and sent everybody home.

Anyway, God bless the USA!

Same thing here

Maternal Grandparents both 50% Native American. I don’t know from where and my Grandfather’s Mother had been accepted back into her tribe who wouldn’t give him information about her. He was a good kind gentle man. My Grandmother on the other hand is as much a fireball at 80 as most anyone I’ve met.

Paternal side was French Canadian. My father and grandfather never discussed it much other than telling me it took 5-6 hours of driving to get to their fishing spot, all on one dirt road. Dad had stopped speaking French and from all anyone knew was as American as anyone. Help every soul he met and never a complaint even after he lost his business and drive trucks for my uncle. Even after being eaten up by cancer in his 30’s I never heard a negative comment I can remember.

I’ve worked with thousands of immigrants from many many parts of the world. Most from South America want to be the last one across the border. Others travel back and forth pretty regularly and I don’t get the impression they identify as much as American. Interesting because those are typically Scientist/Researchers so maybe it’s impacted by financial status as well. Seems the reverse of the stereotypes though.

Mine came from Norway in the 1850’s

I admire and respect anyone who left their home land as an adult and immigrated to the USA. That took balls of steel.
I salute you. Our country is better off with you.

You live in Washington State.

LOL

Care for a drink?

Are you a Trump supporter?

Me too.

Tehlequah, Oklahoma.

Dunno if I’m an immigrant or not. Spent 2.5 years on a Pacific island when I was a kid, and 2.5 years in Vietnam a few years later. They let me come back to America both times W/O handcuffs.

Dad’s forebears landed on the Atlantic coast near Charleston in the late 1600’s. Mom’s family came a bit later. Lineage is a little confused actually. English, Welsh, German, Dutch, French and a splash of Irish. It’s very confusing.