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I'm pointing out the hypocrisy of those Republicans who tout the "legal" immigration of their ancestors when their ancestors had built-in advantages. And, no I haven't heard Romney say that but I've heard plenty of other folks say that.  If you descended from Western European stock who immigrated at that time, your family got special treatment, and you shouldn't use your family origins as an argument in the current immigration debate.

And, again, the pps were correct.  A Welshman could get into the United States at that time much more easily than an Asian or an Eastern European or an Italian. However, it appears, according to wikipedia, that there were no restrictions on Latin American countries so the pp may have been wrong about a Mexican having difficulty entering at that time.[/quote]

It's not hypocrisy.  Advantages may have existed, but legal and illegal are still constructs.  There are still in place quotas on how many immigrants can come from a given country in a given year.  Is it hypocrisy to come legally from one of these countries instead of illegally from Mexico?

In fact, with regards to Republications, I'd say it's not hypocrisy at all.  They are for strict immigration controls and are making the point that they themselves came legally.  It would be much harder to take a hard line on immigration if your family snuck into the country.[/quote]But the point is that what was "legal" for people like Ann Romney's father was discriminatory. They may have played by the rules but all the rules were bent and constructed in their favor so it wasn't so hard to play by the rules.  They ended up getting unfair advantages over other people.  Frankly, nowadays that is completely contrary to what Americans believe in.  We believe in equal treatment based on national origin so I'm glad that things have changed.

Hey it used to be illegal in some states for people to marry interracially.  Are we going to look back on couples from that era and say, hey people who married within racial lines followed the law and did it legally?  People who married across racial lines did it illegally so they should be sanctioned!

Like I said, my family got lots of preference when it came to immigration to the United States because of their British origin.  I'm not going to apologize for it but I'm also not going to pretend that my family followed the "rules" that other families didn't when the rules were all laid down to benefit them.

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