I came to this country as an immigrant from India in 1957. After finishing my doctorate at University of California, San Francisco, I taught at Georgetown University School of Medicine and Dentistry in Washington, DC. After retiring, I have contributed to our country in a volunteer capacity in a number of areas. I am proud of my accomplishments just as other immigrants have been, and for returning the favor to other citizens of our beloved country. I urge our political and other leaders to support immigration — after all, except for the native Americans, we are all immigrants to America. Let us not forget about what immigrants can accomplish and make this country what it is. It saddens me to witness the current anti-immigration stance of some of the conservative leaders in the country.

If you want to get really technical about it, the native Americans may not be native to this country. Didn’t the original inhabitants of North America come over the a former land bridge over the Bering Strait from Asia to what is now Alaska?

First, let me say to Dinkar, the Conservatives are not ANTI-IMMIGRATION they are ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. There is a big difference. You came to this country the right way, Lucia’s family came the wrong way, risking life and limb instead of filing the correct papers and immigrating legally. Your correct all our families immigrated here at one time or another. However, there are laws in place that must be obeyed. If one will not follow our laws on immigration, that proves their disregard for our laws and our way of life in our country. If I go to Mexico, can I just blatently disregard their laws? I highly doubt it. Therefore, it is simple logic that if one disrespects one law they disrespect all law which means the disrespect the people of that country. Sorry, but I feel you need to understand why so many here feel as they do about this immigration thing.

My grandmother crossed over from Canada. She took a train saying she was going to visit her cousins, which she was, but never went back. But it amazes me when people speak to me about how against immigration they are. I tell them my grandmother was an illegal immigrant. She didn’t get her citizenship until she turned sixty and only applied because she had learned to drive and wanted a license. She was from Ireland.

WELL I GUESS HISTORY FOR FACT IS NOT TALKING ABOUT THE MIGRATION FROM THE COLONIES TO WHAT WE KNOW NOW LIKE AMERICA NOT BECAUSE COLUMBUS (REAL ILLEGAL CRIMINAL), BUT IM NOT HERE TO ARGUE ABOUT THINGS THAT SPEAK FOR THEMSElVES AND STILL SPARK A LOT OF CONTROVERSY.

For more details on theories of Paleo-Indian migration, see Models of migration to the New World.

The specifics of Paleo-Indian migration to and throughout the Americas, including the exact dates and routes traveled, are subject to ongoing research and discussion.[6] The traditional theory has been that these early migrants moved into the Beringia land bridge between eastern Siberia and present-day Alaska around 40,000 — 17,000 years ago, when sea levels were significantly lowered due to the Quaternary glaciation.[6][7] These people are believed to have followed herds of now-extinct pleistocene megafauna along ice-free corridors that stretched between the Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets.[8] Another route proposed is that, either on foot or using primitive boats, they migrated down the Pacific Northwest coast to South America.[9] Evidence of the latter would since have been covered by a sea level rise of hundreds of meters following the last ice age.[10]

Archaeologists contend that Paleo-Indians migration out of Beringia (eastern Alaska), ranges from 40,000 to around 16,500 years ago.[11][12][13] This time range is a hot source of debate and will be for years to come. The few agreements achieved to date are the origin from Central Asia, with widespread habitation of the Americas during the end of the last glacial period, or more specifically what is known as the late glacial maximum, around 16,000 — 13,000 years before present.[13][14]

The Inuit migrated into the Arctic section of North America in another wave of migration, arriving around 1000 CE.[15] Around the same time as the Inuit migrated into North America, Viking settlers began arriving in Greenland in 982 and Vinland shortly thereafter.[16] The Viking settlers quickly abandoned Vinland, and disappeared from Greenland by 1500.[17]

European colonization of the Americas
Main article: European colonization of the Americas

Large-scale European colonization of the Americas began shortly after the voyages of Christopher Columbus starting in 1492. The spread of new diseases brought by Europeans and Africans killed many of the inhabitants of North America and South America,[20][21] with a general population crash of Native Americans occurring in the mid-sixteenth century, often well ahead of European contact.[22] Native peoples and European colonizers came into widespread conflict, resulting in what David Stannard has called a genocide of the indigenous populations.[23] Early European immigrants were often part of state-sponsored attempts to found colonies in the Americas. Migration continued as people moved to the Americas fleeing religious persecution or seeking economic opportunities. Millions of individuals were forcibly transported to the Americas as slaves, prisoners or indentured servants.

YES WE CAN!!! WE DONT QUIT!!!! I DONT QUIT!!!!

I see my comment was removed, perfect example of what I was talking about. In this country we have the 1st Amendment which gives us the right to freedom of speech. You removed my post, curbing my freedom to speak. Proves EXACTLY what I said, you do not want to come here to improve yourselves or live the American dream. You come here, invading our country ILLEGALLY then try to change our laws to suit your criminal activities and strip us of our rights.

You want communisism and distatorship, go back home. We do not esnt that here and we will not tolerate your censorship.

Didn’t mean to beat a hornet’s nest; so TonnyWAR, although you’re quoting details, it sounds like you’re also promoting retribution on all “white” people……

I would like to quote one beloved character, i dont hate any body but for all you haters my man CHAPELLE WOULD GIVE YOU A TIP:

Frontline – Clayton Bigsby
Meet Clayton Bigsby, black white supremacist.

http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=24400&title=frontline-clayton-bigsby

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.