re: I'm really sick of the "we are a nation of immigrants" propaganda.

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First of all I AM NOT AN IMMIGRANT.

I AM AN AMERICAN.

The nation is comprised of approximately 12% first generation immigrants. I even hate using that term "first generation immigrant" because it implies that there is such a thing as a second and third generation immigrant.

Note to propaganda machine and lemmings who promote it: if you are born in America you are not an immigrant.

Furthermore on my mom's side my ancestors were settlers to the New World from Canada via France in the 17th century before a country on the continent of North America was even in existence. My ancestors on my mom's side were annexed by the U.S. when Napoleon to sold Louisiana to the United States for approximately 15 million francs in 1803 to pay for his military machine.

On my dad's side he is a third generation from three brothers and one sister who immigrated from Vicenza Italy. The rumor is,that the kids were the bastard children of a cardinal and they had to GTFO of Italy before they became known or a big scandal would have ensued.

The bottom line is Americans has all kinds of stories on how their ancestors reached these shores. But sorry, after the first generation YOU ARE NOT AN IMMIGRANT.

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Been tooting that horn since the whole "we are all immigrants' first reared its head. I have taught my grandchildren that when their ancestors landed there was no country anywhere. The were settlers and colonists. They either lived or died depending on their own resources and efforts. I have 3 blank spots in my ancestry where it is possible that they came here after the Revolution. Latest potential 'immigrant' was in 1832 - I do not know who her parents were, but she lived in a Scottish clan who had been in North Carolina for roughly a century. I have another who I cannot trace back further than 1803 and another dead ends at 1792. You have to go well into the 1600s to find most of my ancestors' arrival in the New World.

Legal immigration is a good thing - Welcome to America - illegal aliens are invading hordes.