14th:E First American ancestor was a Welsh indentured servant who came in through Jamestown in 1642, and some Huguenot ancestors through South Carolina (not one of my ancestors came in through New York) in the 1680s after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (more properly the Edict of Fontainebleau), in which the French King Louis the XIV declared Protestantism illegal. Since they were clergy, they thought it best to locate elsewhere. It's also strongly believed (my grandfather is a genealogist) my Huguenot ancestors intermarried with the Cherokee population there. In either case, though I assume you mean primarily illegal immigration, for which there is certainly a strong case against it, it is a bit much to say "I can have mine, but you can not have yours." In the end having ancestry that goes back that far means squat. All immigration waves eventually decline, so this phase we are in will not last into perpetuity. Is there any particular group you take issue though? I'm sure I can think up economic alternatives that would likely solve the problem, however fruitless it would be to so.
21-Sep-2007
21-Sep-2007