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"We Are All Pilgrims & Indians": Opinionated MAMA's Perspective On IMMIGRATION

We are a nation of pilgrims.  Unless you are a Native American Indian, you have the blood of immigrants.  So, although you feel like a native, your family came here from somewhere else. Our individual immigration stories give credence to the fact that we are the scrappiest, hardest-working collection of people on the planet.  Our relatives fled famine, persecution, incarceration or were brought here in chains.  Some how they made it.  Some way they built a life.  It wasn’t easy to do, but they did it.  And, they inspired...

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    I do hope my comment was read with the sarcasm intended. It irks me so as I sit in my comfortable home, with my happy, comparatively easy life, and read how selfish and smug so many Americans are about what we have. I have a son who is dedicating his life to feeding the poor in our region. Now him I admire. Sharing bounty is a better attitude.
    (from SWEET HOME ALABAMA: Illegal Immigrant Crackdown )
    on 06/17/11
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President Obama is sending National Guard to the border to help with the illegal immigration, human/drug trafficking problem and other crimes.  The Pentagon says that the troops will serve for a year while the Department of Homeland Security can hire and train field agents for the permanent job.  Meanwhile, John McCain and the President had a  tense exchange over the immigration issue...

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A second grade little girl asked First Lady Michelle Obama a big question.  She wanted to know if it was true that Barack Obama was taking away people who "didn’t have papers."  The little girl, Margarita Zavala, quietly said, "but my mom doesn't have any...?" and the rest of the sentence is inaudible.  The First Lady told the little girl, “well, we have to work on that. We have to fix that. ...

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Republican Senator Pearce of Arizona sponsored an immigration bill, which was passed in the state senate 17-11.   The Senator has declared, “Enough is enough.” Arizona has about 450,000 illegal immigrants living there.  This bill makes it a crime for illegals not to have proof of alien registration.  Police are required to question anyone about their immigration status if they are...
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Senators Graham (SC-R) and Shumer (NY-D) have announced a bi-partisan immigration reform plan.  The proposal increases border enforcement, reforms the legalization process for undocumented immigrants to give them a "tough, but fair" system to bring them "out of the shadows" of our society and requires them to carry a biometric identification card that cannot be forged.  President Obama is on...

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