Did the forefathers legally immigrate to america??
Answer:
No. The 'forefathers' of this country entered land that was inhabited by numerous indigenous groups and began one of the largest genocides in human history to claim the land from these people (10 million indigenous inhabitants in North America in 1600; that number has fallen to roughly 3 million today as a result of warfare and disease). This was justified politically on the grounds that native groups were not 'civilized', and therefore had no right to claim title to the land. It was also justified on religious grounds: the protestant ideal that claiming land from non-christian savages and using it in economic ways would please the christian god and ensure personal salvation. These are equivalent to saying indigenous groups are less human than Europeans, a savage group of people not entitled to the rights and privileges afforded Europeans. Justifying this migration today is an affirmation of the validity of these horrible acts.
Europeans are the original illegal immigrants.
Most of them were born here. I'm speaking of the Founding Fathers.
The pilgrims legally came here since the land had no country to rule over it.
yes ..because there was no laws prohibiting it back then
since our founding fathers were British citizens yes . majority of our founding fathers were born on the land that became the USA.
Most of the 1787 delegates were natives of the 13 colonies.
Only eight were born elsewhere: four (Butler, Fitzsimons, McHenry, and Paterson) in Ireland, two (Davie and Robert Morris) in England, one (Wilson) in Scotland, and one (Hamilton) in the West Indies.
Many of them had moved from one state to another. Sixteen individuals had already lived or worked in more than one state or colony: Baldwin, Bassett, Bedford, Dickinson, Few, Franklin, Ingersoll, Livingston, Alexander Martin, Luther Martin, Mercer, Gouverneur Morris, Robert Morris, Read, Sherman, and Williamson.
Yes. The overwhelming majority of immagrants entering were indeed doing so legally. There was Ellis Island at New York, and another registration center in SanFrancisco.
Short answer, yes. There was no country here, thusly no laws controlling immigration.
There are now nations and laws. It is only right that our laws be respected.
Do you have a copy of some tribal law from that time period?
The natives here then welcomed the foreigners. They got screwed later on for doing so but they did initially.
You know that holiday thanksgiving... where the natives and the settlers ate dinner together in a spirit of friendship etc...
There was no law, most natives believed that the land was the land and didnt belong to them , they believed it belonged to everyone and no one.
So there was no rule or law that the settlers were breaking by coming to the USA at the time.
All illegals
No, the indians were pissed off that we kept immigrating illegally into their land, without their permission. So we sent those sorry saps packin', gave 'em the poorest, crummiest land in the union, and called it fair.
So of course, now we're scared that the mexicans are going to do to white people what the white people did to the indians, so we want to do all sorts of crazy stuff like build a wall and ship them back to the dirt pile they wanted to escape from.
I mean, come on! We stole this land fair and square!
Hello,
Whilst you sometimes needed passes or permission to enter strategic medieval cities or towns, the passport as we know it as well as visas did not really come into being until the beginning of the 20th century.
Based on this, immigration as we know it was not an issue so the answer would be yes since these legalities did not exist.
Michael Kelly
Native American say "How?" Forefathers say "Pow"!
Not really that funny, but come on, this isn't a very serious question so I wont give you a serious answer.
When single cell organisms first appeared on the scene and rose up out of the ooze and crawled onto the land, did they immigrate legally?
i dont think so? i think that everyone is an immigrant because the Native Americans were here first. the founding fathers and them just killed them all to steal this land from them. otherwise i the Spanish and French came first because those PILGRIMS got lost on the way didn't they. all i can say is learn your history.
The Pilgrims were illegal. There were people already here. There laws and customs were not followed. They open there hands just to have it chopped off. There were nations here but the Europeans didn't care they just wanted lands so they could be the dominant world power. There were people here with territories and lands.But it all good. They created the US of A. USA!!
the ones that arrived before immigration laws were
enacted were legal immigrants -- the ones that were
processed through new york and San Francisco were also.
Other that that, they weren't legal;
We don't give a flying crap about what happened before we were born. But we do care about today and that is why you can't excuse illegal immigration with some dog and pony show.
No way to justify breaking the law.
there was no U.S. laws or British laws here, but killing many natives and forcing them into reservations doesn't make it right. Illegals from other countries don't come over and force american people into reservations, they simply come to try and make money to survive.
PLEASE, this has been asked, and answered so many times.
YES, my ancestors came here legally. Most people's ancestors came here legally. This has absolutely NOTHING to do with the fact that we have 20+ million ILLEGAL alien criminals that have invaded our country and have broken our laws!
Why are you looking for absolution for an act committed hundreds of years ago. Events happen, then they are over. The events that are happening now with regards to massive immigration are destroying the USA. That is the present.
For the most part, I would think that those who were not born here had legally immigrated to whichever of the 13 British colonies they resided in, yes.
Perhaps you're thinking of the earliest colonist, who ultimately made a treaty with the Iroquois Confederation, allowing them to settle in the area? The same confederation later allied with the British against the French colonials, who were allied with one of thier rivals.
Though it was hardly all fair and friendly, the colonization of the North East and Canada by Brittain and England bore little resemblance to the Conquest of the Aztecs and Inca by Spain.
Why, do you think it has some bearing on current immigration laws?
Nope, there were no immigration laws back then. Hell, my grandparents came from Germany about 1862 and there were no immigration laws then either. My grandfather signed up and joined the Union Army and fought for America and as his reward, they gave him one acre of land.
You need to ask Christoper Columbus. Nobody on here had anything to do with it. - Really.
They were barely out of the stone age! Where are your cites for your claims?
The question is what to do with illegal aliens:
A. Deport them
B. Let them stay
C. Kill them
What is your choice?
If we let them stay, we lose the country and millions more will come in illegally.
If we deport them, what keeps them from coming back?
The past is the past. Today is now. Being illegal is against the law and it is hurting our country
Yes. Under the law of their respective countries. Spain. England. France.
Nope buddy, atleast not the majority... most came on ships, settled, killed the Native Americans, destroyed their culture and then went around proclaiming " America is White land" coloreds not welcome, except for slavery
The Immigration information post by website user , MyTend.com not guarantee correctness.
More Immigration Questions and Answers ...