Unless y'all are NATIVE AMERICANS y'all are descended from immigrants to this country. Whether first generation or 10th. IMMIGRANTS ALL. SO?

Of course, even the "native Americans" were immigrants.
We all came from central Africa, according to the latest science.

Well, maybe except for those with Neanderthal ancestors.

I do not consider myself an "immigrant".  I was born here and grew up here, went through the system here. And have lived here all my life. I am not responsible for what my ancestors did or where they came from (England, France, Ireland, Poland). 

Nor do I think that we must be responsible for saving the lives of everyone in the world who can't make it or choose not to in their own countries.  Look at how this country and its security had been compromised by the attitudes of those who think somehow we should or who just want to feel good about how "compassionate" they are they don't care about how many people they hurt or whose lives they compromise. 

  Sure, call it "immigration".

My ancestors all came legally. 

It's not a matter of hating anyone. Illegal immigration isn’t just a security issue — it’s a public health crisis in the making. Considering your liberal stance on illegal immigration and you have so much compassion for these people, let me ask you this, would you be willing to take in a family of illegal immigrants, no questions asked? You know, to help take some of the burdens off of the government. Feed these immigrants, clothe them, provide them with medical care, transportation, schooling, etc, knowing the great burdens and risks involved?  As a concerned liberal American with so much compassion for the illegal immigrants, you should be willing to do just that don't ya think? You know, practice what you preach. As always, just my opinion. :)

I am a NATIVE American, with all due respect to the original inhabitants of this land, born here, raised here, part of the culture and an adherent to the laws of same. Immigration is a legal and accepted process. Regulated entry has been a part of what we do here for 175 years. Undocumented, illegal aliens are not part of that process. Reminding me that I'm from Scots Irish ancestry still doesn't make them legal. Calling me a racist and a bigot doesn't change the fact that they do not want to learn the language and assimilate. Calling people names doesn't change the fact that these illegals are in fact violent criminals in many cases. We've got homeless, helpless, sick and incapacitated here already that we don't seem to be able to assist in any way. So, why should we place millions on the government rolls simply to build a voting power base for the Socialist Democrats? If this is the way it's done, why accuse Russians of meddling in elections? And for God's sake, don't start in on that tired old song about America being the "melting pot". This mess we're in is a slap in the face to everybody who has legally contributed to the building of this country for years. Our naturalized citizens have my sympathy. Since they chose the legal route, they now have to pay taxes to support these illegals. A tax rate that could soar to 70-90% if the Socialist Democrats get their way. 

Wikipedia quote -  Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Aristocratic in his origins and elitist in his ideas, Coudenhove-Kalergi identified and collaborated with such politicians as Engelbert Dollfuss, Kurt Schuschnigg, Otto von Habsburg, Winston Churchill, and Charles de Gaulle.  He strove to replace the nationalist German ideal of racial community with the goal of an ethnically heterogeneous and inclusive European nation based on a commonality of culture.

Coudenhove-Kalergi is recognized as the founder of the first popular movement for a united Europe. His intellectual influences ranged from Immanuel Kant, Rudolf Kjellén and Oswald Spengler to Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche. In politics, he was an enthusiastic supporter of "fourteen points" made by Woodrow Wilson on 8 January 1918 and pacifist initiatives of Kurt Hiller. In December 1921, he joined the Masonic lodge "Humanitas" in Vienna. In 1922, he co-founded the Pan-European Union (PEU) with Archduke Otto von Habsburg, as "the only way of guarding against an eventual world hegemony by Russia."In 1923, he published a manifesto entitled Pan-Europa, each copy containing a membership form which invited the reader to become a member of the Pan-Europa movement. He favored social democracy as an improvement on "the feudal aristocracy of the sword" but his ambition was to create a conservative society that superseded democracy with "the social aristocracy of the spirit." European freemason lodges supported his movement, including the lodge Humanitas. Pan-Europa was translated into the languages of European countries (excluding Italian, which edition was not published at that time) and a multitude of other languages, except for Russian.

According to his autobiography, at the beginning of 1924 his friend Baron Louis de Rothschild introduced him to Max Warburg who offered to finance his movement for the next three years by giving him 60,000 gold marks. Warburg remained sincerely interested in the movement for the remainder of his life and served as an intermediate for Coudenhove-Kalergi with influential Americans such as banker Paul Warburg and financier Bernard Baruch. In April 1924, Coudenhove-Kalergi founded the journal Paneuropa (1924–1938) of which he was editor and principal author. The next year he started publishing his main work, the Kampf um Paneuropa (The fight for Paneuropa, 1925–1928, three volumes). In 1926, the first Congress of the Pan-European Union was held in Vienna and the 2,000 delegates elected Coudenhove-Kalergi as president of the Central Council, a position he held until his death in 1972.

His original vision was for a world divided into only five states: a United States of Europe that would link continental countries with French and Italian possessions in Africa; a Pan-American Union encompassing North and South Americas; the British Commonwealth circling the globe; the USSR spanning Eurasia; and a Pan-Asian Union whereby Japan and China would control most of the Pacific. To him, the only hope for a Europe devastated by war was to federate along lines that the Hungarian-born Romanian Aurel Popovici and others had proposed for the dissolved multinational Empire of Austria-Hungary. According to Coudenhove-Kalergi, Pan-Europe would encompass and extend a more flexible and more competitive Austria-Hungary, with English serving as the world language, spoken by everyone in addition to their native tongue. He believed that individualism and socialism would learn to cooperate instead of compete, and urged that capitalism and communism cross-fertilise each other just as the Protestant Reformation had spurred the Catholic Church to regenerate itself.

Coudenhove-Kalergi attempted to enlist prominent European politicians in his pan-European cause. He offered the presidency of the Austrian branch of the Pan-European Union to Ignaz Seipel, who accepted the offer unhesitatingly and rewarded his beneficiary with an office in the old Imperial palace in Vienna. Coudenhove-Kalergi had less success with Tomáš Masaryk, who referred him to his uncooperative Prime Minister Edvard Beneš. However, the idea of pan-Europe elicited support from politicians as diverse as the Italian anti-Fascist politician Carlo Sforza and the German President of the Reichsbank under Hitler, Hjalmar Schacht. Although Coudenhove-Kalergi found himself unable to sway Benito Mussolini, his ideas influenced Aristide Briand through his inspired speech in favour of a European Union in the League of Nations on 8 September 1929, as well as his famous 1930 "Memorandum on the Organisation of a Regime of European Federal Union

In his book Praktischer Idealismus (Practical Idealism), written in 1925, he describes the future of Jews in Europe and of European racial composition with the following words:

"The man of the future will be of mixed race. Today's races and classes will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future, similar in its appearance to the Ancient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of individuals. [...]

Instead of destroying European Jewry, Europe, against its own will, refined and educated this people into a future leader-nation through this artificial selection process. No wonder that this people, that escaped Ghetto-Prison, developed into a spiritual nobility of Europe. Therefore a gracious Providence provided Europe with a new race of nobility by the Grace of Spirit. This happened at the moment when Europe's feudal aristocracy became dilapidated, and thanks to Jewish emancipation."


As I've said before nothing happens that isn't planned. 

What reason would the gov have to tax anyone that much? It is the same as theft...it causes people to take their money elsewhere. (Using legal ways to do it. Just hurts the economy) This post was edited by my2cents at February 8, 2019 7:04 AM MST