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Originally Posted by Nanners52674
This and what Drole said are what I don't understand about peoples hatred of immigrants (legal or illegal) unless you are a Native American somewhere in your family is an immigrant. Hypocrisy is the perfect term to describe it.
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My ancestors came here legally.
And what they did has no bearing on how I view illegal immigrants today. Why should it? That was then, this was now, new game, new rules, totally different world. I know for a fact that even if my family did come over on the Mayflower, they didn't plop down in the middle of an Iroquois village, have babies and apply for federal and state benefits. The early settlers colonized the country, beat back the indigenous population because, well... that's what Europeans used to do back then. Right or wrong, we are where we are now.
My ancestors played by the rules of their day, eventually ended up in Oklahoma and built what passes for civilization in the middle of nowhere in just over 100 years time.
"Hatred" is not the same as an insistence that people should play by the rules or justly suffer the consequences for choosing not to. That isn't hatred under any definition I'm aware of.