proud republican wrote:
Im an immigrant myself...I understand that people want to come here for better life...Thats what my parents wanted for me and my sister....The problem i have is that we came here LEGALLY...We waited for yrs my parents had to leave everything behind......Friends,family..We ran from prosecution because we were Jewish...I was always attacked in school because of my religion, my father been threatened with death of his family....Yes ,so i understand why people want to flee their hate filled countries.....But what makes them more special then my family???.....They need to apply for permission to come to America ,not just cross the border illegally and expect our government too bend over backwards for them...Come here legally,learn language,become citizen and be grateful to this country for accepting you!!!...Being a citizen is not a right,its priviladge!!!
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Good words. Thank you for being American above all else.
A word about kevyn comments.. he is right of course.. Follow the link for this info..
Plenty more stories about Jews being turned away, for various reasons..
http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/01/30/1939-refugees-st-louis-manifestOn those attempting to escape Germany on MS St. Louis
"These were German Jews of means, primarily, who, after Kristallnacht, after the night of the broken glass in Germany, saw the writing on the wall and tried to get out before there was a systematic policy to murder millions of Jews. And they applied for visas to the United States, they applied for documents to enter Cuba, and they boarded the ship to basically get out and to save their lives and the lives of their families. And along the way, unbeknownst to them, the Cuban government pulled their paperwork and these folks by and large were stranded. And they went from, first from Cuba, from the port of Havana, and they sailed toward Miami, at which point they were interdicted by a Coast Guard cutter. And despite attempts from both passengers on the ship, from representatives in America to try to help them gain with telegrams to both FDR and telegrams to the state department, these folks were forced back to Europe and approximately half of the Jewish refugees on the ship who were shipped back to Europe eventually ended up perishing during the Holocaust
My mistake I thought your family fled Nazis, many Jews did and were turned away and sent to their deaths. It is as shameful then as it is now. Your people were lucky, the people in power here hated communists more than Jews. Just never forget they still hated Jews.
Kevyn wrote:
My mistake I thought your family fled Nazis, many Jews did and were turned away and sent to their deaths. It is as shameful then as it is now. Your people were lucky, the people in power here hated communists more than Jews. Just never forget they still hated Jews.
My people were lucky?????? How??Explain.....
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Kevyn wrote:
My mistake I thought your family fled Nazis, many Jews did and were turned away and sent to their deaths. It is as shameful then as it is now. Your people were lucky, the people in power here hated communists more than Jews. Just never forget they still hated Jews.
It was a sad time in America history !
Why didn't you post the reasoning they had for turning away or do you even know that ?
proud republican wrote:
Does it matter????...The point is you HAVE to come here LEGALLY!!!!.....Even if we could my parents would not do that...They are law abiding people and they taught this to me and my sister.....
true, where did you grow up, there were Jews in my class at school. The only thing we noticed was that they got more legal days off than the rest of us.....
Kevyn wrote:
My mistake I thought your family fled Nazis, many Jews did and were turned away and sent to their deaths. It is as shameful then as it is now. Your people were lucky, the people in power here hated communists more than Jews. Just never forget they still hated Jews.
What does this have to do with "Illegal Aliens" and Proud Republican's Topic?
EmilyD wrote:
I guess so...so is he always this way? I'm too new to get it, I think.
Actually, this is one of his better days. He can be a lot worse
proud republican wrote:
Im an immigrant myself...I understand that people want to come here for better life...Thats what my parents wanted for me and my sister....The problem i have is that we came here LEGALLY...We waited for yrs my parents had to leave everything behind......Friends,family..We ran from prosecution because we were Jewish...I was always attacked in school because of my religion, my father been threatened with death of his family....Yes ,so i understand why people want to flee their hate filled countries.....But what makes them more special then my family???.....They need to apply for permission to come to America ,not just cross the border illegally and expect our government too bend over backwards for them...Come here legally,learn language,become citizen and be grateful to this country for accepting you!!!...Being a citizen is not a right,its priviladge!!!
Im an immigrant myself...I understand that people ... (
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You are exactly the type of person they had in mind when the Statue of Liberty was erected.
EmilyD wrote:
Where the hell did you pull this out of? Americans sent refugees back to the gas chamber?
WOW. So you ARE the troll of this forum...now I get it.
In 1939, there was a ship carrying about 900 Jewish refugees who were denied entrance. This is long before anyone had any idea there was such a thing as concentration camps. What our resident troll forgot to mention was that they were first denied entrance to Cuba, and Canada wouldn't take them either.
Liberty Tree wrote:
Actually, this is one of his better days. He can be a lot worse
Not so much worse as more annoying.
proud republican wrote:
Does it matter????...The point is you HAVE to come here LEGALLY!!!!.....Even if we could my parents would not do that...They are law abiding people and they taught this to me and my sister.....
There are many illegals crossing our borders that come from the Mid-East and Africa, so an ocean is not a complete deterrent. You are exactly right. If you want to immigrate to the U.S. you should do so legally. Otherwise you are an illegal alien, not an immigrant.
Loki wrote:
In 1939, there was a ship carrying about 900 Jewish refugees who were denied entrance. This is long before anyone had any idea there was such a thing as concentration camps. What our resident troll forgot to mention was that they were first denied entrance to Cuba, and Canada wouldn't take them either.
He also failed to mention that only a quarter of them were killed in the Holocaust. That's about 230 people, not all 900.
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