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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (66224)9/26/2015 1:34:14 PM
From: Elroy Jetson  Read Replies (1) of 86347
 
The descendants of immigrant coal miners are anchor-babies who got US citizenship through the slight-of-hand of being born here. If there's no work for them now, send them home.

Very few of the immigrant miners ever became Americans themselves. Most were too illiterate to have passed a citizenship test and the majority never learned to speak English.

The immigrant coal miners just spoke Welsh, Celtic or Polish and got drunk after work, most not knowing more than 100 English words until their dying day.

Of course their anchor-babies went to taxpayer-funded schools and learned how to speak at least broken English. Yet their immigrant miner parents, prior to Social Security and Medicare, paid no taxes. So familiar.

Just as today, immigrants just showed up on passenger ships and didn't leave.

The United States didn't have visas then, just as we don't require actual paper or stamped visas from most countries today. Passports then were a single sheet of paper and optional.
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