LIBERALS ARE HITTING THE STREETS across the country with signs clearly showing they miss the immigration point.
Signs such as the one the woman is carrying in the following image from the Daytona Beach News-Journal.
The woman in the photo, above, is almost correct, but there is a however to be considered.
Almost because unless she’s considering “Native Americans” – and we have many in Florida’s Everglades and nearby communities – as “immigrants,” her statement shows her ignorance – or perhaps simply denies reality.
However because while we or our antecedents are/were immigrants, we/they immigrated to the U.S. legally
Operative word: LEGALLY.
A little immigration history
The U.S. has been passing naturalization laws since 1787; the first law restricting immigration was passed in 1882.1 The 1882 act, the first immigration law, barred Chinese – and only Chinese – from entry into the U.S. According to Wikipedia,
- Chinese had immigrated to the Western United States as a result of unsettled conditions in China, the availability of jobs working on railroads, and the Gold Rush that was going on at that time in California.
Republican Chester Alan Arthur was president when the act was promulgated.
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was preceded in 1875 by the Page Act that prohibited the entry of immigrants considered as "undesirable" The law classified as "undesirable" any individual from Asia who was coming to America to be a contract laborer. The Act, designed to prevent Orientals from being brought to the U.S. effectively as slave labor, imposed a fine of up to $2,000 and maximum jail sentence of one year upon anyone who tried to bring a person from China, Japan, or any oriental country to the United States "without their free and voluntary consent, for the purpose of holding them to a term of service" .
- A list of naturalization and immigration laws from 1790 to 2012 is online.2
A thought: Had the Indians at Plymouth rock had an immigration policy, one that included a health inspection, the Pilgrims never would have been allowed ashore (as they brought European diseases with them).
If the sign waver’s antecedents came to the U.S. after the Immigration Act of 1891, they either entered the country legally or the Feds never caught them.
The QUOTA system was introduced with the The Immigration Act of 1924 (The Johnson-Reed Act).3
- The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census. It completely excluded immigrants from Asia.
Republican John Calvin Coolidge Jr was president when the law was enacted.
None of the above can be laid at President Trump’s door; at the same time, nothing President Trump has attempted to accomplish sets precedent.
A few words about walls
While Barack Obama did not pay Mexico to build a wall on Mexico’s southern border, he DID use taxpayer money to provide Mexico with, according to Snopes,4
- $75 million worth of assistance to Mexico in the form of U.S. training and equipment in a joint effort to help secure southern borders and deal with issues of drug trafficking and immigration.
Obviously his largesse with taxpayer dollars went for naught. Drugs and emigrants from south of Mexico’s southern border still manage to reach, and enter, the U.S. via Mexico.
Why he opted to help build a wall between Mexico and its southern neighbors rather than a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border to “deal with issues of drug trafficking and immigration” only he and his State Department knows. (This is the same State Department, when under Hillary Clinton, that refused to protect U.S. consulate personnel in Benghazi from a planned “spontaneous” attack. Four U.S. citizens were murdered largely due to lack of requested protection.)
China built its “Great Wall” to keep out Mongol hordes.
Romans routinely built walls around their cities.5
Jericho – remember Joshua and the horns – had a wall.6
Berlin once was divided by a wall.
Hadrian was a wall builder; one in England is a “tourist must-see.”
The Temple’s Western Wall – never “Wailing Wall” – still stands in Jerusalem.
The wall of Troy, Turkey remain a tourist attraction. Istanbul (Constantinople) also has a wall.
Israel has walls to prevent terrorists from the so-called Palestinian Authority and Hamas from entering the country to murder Jews, Arabs, and others living in Israel.
The Huffington Post has a picture page of 13 famous walls around the world.7 Unfortunately, the site only has images, no descriptions re WHY the walls were built.
Walls surround military installations to keep unauthorized visitors out.
Walls surround prisons to keep “guests” in and unauthorized visitors out.
An aside: Joshua and thousands of Israelites blowing horns and stomping around Jericho may have triggered an earthquake. Jericho, Sodom, and Gomorrah all sit on the Dead Sea fault.8
The woman’s sign suggests that she certainly needs an American history lesson. Maybe her school failed to cover the reality of government actions before she took paint or marker to poster board, but she could have, should have, done here homework – everything is on the WWW as the footnotes below prove.
As far as the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border in concerned, ask why Obama spent U.S. dollars to help Mexico secure its still porous southern border. At least “Trump’s Wall” will put Americans to work, and maybe a few illegals, too. (Irony in BOLD CAPS)
Sources
1. http://tinyurl.com/y7cysjsk
2. http://tinyurl.com/jqvxz54
3. http://tinyurl.com/qe2tnuw
4. http://tinyurl.com/yb9d3uej
5. http://tinyurl.com/y8zawydy
6. http://tinyurl.com/n6o7y27
7. http://tinyurl.com/y7ofsvfr
8. http://tinyurl.com/yba2b6oj
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