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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mel221 who wrote (80786)	7/2/2018 1:55:13 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356457

Trump's policy is to cause immigration problems so it seems like there IS an immigration problem. His easily conned voters buy it, but almost no one else does.

To: mel221 who wrote (80786)	7/2/2018 2:02:58 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356457

"The ROC's immigration policy is to ignore immigration and hope it goes away." It was that way from the "beginning"; Americans were late to the Gold Rush. If we had thought about immigration back then, we wouldn't have let them in. THE SAN FRANCISCO '48ERS / We all know about the Gold Rush of 1849, but those guys were a bunch of Johnny-come-latelies. Before that, as word of gold spread, fields were left half plowed and houses half built It was not until May 12, 1848 that Samuel Brannan, an elder of the Mormon Church, went down to San Francisco with a glass bottle full of gold. He went up Montgomery Street like a prophet, waving the bottle of gold and shouting, "Gold! Gold! Gold from the American River!" He caused a sensation, just as he had planned, and Brannan had planned well. Before his announcement, Brannan had opened a store near the gold fields, stocked with shovels and mining tools at patriotic prices. He became California's first millionaire.... In Monterey, Walter Colton made his famous remark on the excitement that gripped the sleepy town in the spring of 1848: "The blacksmith dropped his hammer, the carpenter his plane, the mason his trowel, the baker his loaf, the tapster his bottle. All were off to the mines, some on horses, some in carts, some went on crutches, and one went in a litter. The fever has reached every servant in Monterey; none are to be entrusted in their engagements beyond a week."... Until summer, the Californians had the gold rush to themselves. But word reached Hawaii in June, Oregon in August, Mexico in late summer, Peru in September. There were 10,000 Americans in Oregon that summer. By fall, a third of them had left for California. Among the '48ers was Peter Burnett, who came from Oregon City and within two years was the first governor of the new state of California. At first, it was an equal opportunity gold rush. Some miners employed Indians to work their claims; in the southern mines there were so many Mexicans at work their town was named Sonora. It was only later that the '49ers pushed the Indians aside and kicked out the Mexicans, Chileans and Peruvians.