Who do you think you are lecturing one specific poster on their passion to bring their story to this forum?
We have dozens of threads with Americans sitting in their nice house with electricity and running water, and flushing toilets....probably all the other amenities to boot...and complaining about how poor immigrants are taking everything they worked for.
The irony in your post is impressive. Why should anybody listen when others like you seem to refuse to understand that what is happening today is no different than what has already happened.
Selfishness knows no bounds.
Oh, but it is different.
Yes, there were some bad things that happened and yes, some nasty things happened on both sides.
However, as I pointed out to Red Fox...the upshot was that they are much better off in the long run, and continuing to complain about stuff that happened over a century ago is just stupid.
My own Dad was mostly Iroquois Indian, as I think I have pointed out to the lady before. There is a beautiful reservation near the home I grew up in in upstate New York. It is a very comfortable and happy place to live. And yes, the people who live there do remember their own culture and still speak the old language...but I don't think even one of them would want to go back to the way it was before the white man came.
Now, these illegal immigrants are not bringing a more civilized way of life to America. All they are bringing is more poverty and more crime.
Do we really need that?
It is not that I do not sympathize with their plight...but wouldn't it be better if we helped them to straighten out their own country? I mean, Mexico is a very beautiful and fertile country...have you ever been there?
Don't we have enough hungry and homeless children of our own? Don't we have enough crime right here, already?
Is it really worth having this cheap labor, which really only benefits the disgustingly rich, to take away what little does trickle down to the bottom?
Call me "selfish" if you like...I've been called worse, and by better.
But I truly believe we ought to take care of our own poor and homeless kids first.