So...they're not different from us, except for everything different? ... What? There's a difference between expansion and what's happening now. If they're seeking a better life, sure, great, we're all for it, just DO IT LEGALLY. As has been said, illegal immigration is an insult to those immigrants who came in legally and now are upstanding citizens.
No, they are no different. From the Human origins of Africa, moving on to the Middle East then seperating to the Caucasus & Far East, we've been doing it since we could scratch our own arse. The actual differences were pointed out by myself, but actual immigration, we are the same. With regards to the legality of the immigration, while I very much douvbt there was international law on the matter, I very much doubt your Founders were worried about that as they landed on the East Coast. Most if your country's leaders are descendants of these very people & indeed, upstanding citizens like you say.

America isn't worried about its own citizens becoming terrorists. It has happened, somewhat, but the threat now is from outside the country. And those people would have to get in, through...where? Our borders! Amazing ain't it? They are seperate arguments, of course, as everything else, but they coincide.
Eh, again you are mixing Terrorism & Immigration, the two overlap at times, true, but they are not the same thing. In anycase, I believe America's biggest problems stem from it's own citizens, not from outside elements. When the house of cards that is the US Economy crumbles, and it will, I think you will bear the fruits of your lax gun laws.


Here's an idea. Why don't we just make one big global government? Topple every country's government, make a one-world currency, make common laws, codes, etc. for every part of the earth, and we'd all be one big happy family and live happily ever after? That way there'd be no need for immigration, no borders, nothing to seperate everybody. And hey, wouldn't you know it, there wouldn't be an America to protect from the millions of people willing to give their life to take the life of one or more of us. Good plan, huh? (I'm not going to ask if everybody else thinks that's stupid, because there are some people that just ain't at that level.)
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Sounds good to me, as long as it is democratically run & every nation has a say, uniting wouldn't be a bad idea. The most intelligent yankie-doodle-dandy-less thing you've said so far. As for America 'protecting' the world, first of all we wouldn't need protecting from the world if you hadn't of armed it first. Secondly, if we did unite as a people there would be no one to 'protect' us from. In saying that, I do recognise the good America has done, and I am thankful, it has done a LOT of good around the world, it's finding the right balance that's the problem.

By the way. I was born in America. Haven't tried to move out. Didn't have to move in. I didn't come here, kill everybody who stood in my way, and build a house. You know what? Neither did my parents. And, wouldn't you know it, their parents didn't do that either! You see a pattern here? Nobody's trying to conquer a new land, they're trying to enter a place that's already become prosperous through the hard work of its people.
GO YOU! I never once said you or your parents did, so all that's left to say is well done! Keep it up!

And three hundred years ago, there was no such thing as "legal/illegal immigration".
300 hundred years ago we were burning witches at the stake & lynching anybody with a slightly different skin tone, are you trying to tell me that because there wasn't any law against it, then it's fine? The Nazi's woulda LOVED you. You don't need Governmental or International Law to tell you what's right & wrong.


I will say again. I support legal immigration. If you're using the argument that "oh, these people are just trying to make a better life for themselves", then why don't they do it legally?
I bet there are thousands of Mexicans kicking themselves saying 'Why didn't i think of that'