Migrant thieving shoplifters caught by security in London

VaughanJB said:
Well, the US was built on the backs of immigrants. As for today, they're earning, on average, 86% of what a native born American earns doing the same job. And then, often, the Americans I met were first, second, or maybe third generation immigrants - hardly natives.

In the UK, we had the Commonwealth, and that allowed many migrants to come in.

The word "migrant" does not define illegal migrants, or those applying for asylum under international law. It includes ALL migrants.

77% of migrants in the US arrived legally. 4% were legal, temporary migrants.

So yeah, nothing wrong with migrants as a whole.

ps: Just out of interest, if you caref to share - how many generations removed are you from the migrant who came to the US? And from where did they come?
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The issue here is crime, not migrants

(Northern Europeans in the 1800s. Maternal great grandparents from Norway. Paternal great great greats from Ireland and England.)
 

gruntlabor said:
The issue here is crime, not migrants

(Northern Europeans in the 1800s. Maternal great grandparents from Norway. Paternal great great greats from Ireland and England.)
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Then why are we talking about migrants, and not crime? The thread title used the word "Migrant".

Assuming your family emigrated to the US in 1850, you're likely a 5th generation American. Just for fun I looked it up, and there have been around 14 generations since the Mayflower. We all know what happened to the natives.
 
VaughanJB said:
Then why are we talking about migrants, and not crime? The thread title used the word "Migrant".

Assuming your family emigrated to the US in 1850, you're likely a 5th generation American. Just for fun I looked it up, and there have been around 14 generations since the Mayflower. We all know what happened to the natives.
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I'm sorry, Vaughan, I think I'm too tired to understand your point but I do want to say that I am proud of the drop of Cherokee blood in my veins. Good night to you.
 

gruntlabor said:
Yes, I do know. The natives were decimated. Which seems to be happening again: the newcomers decimating the natives.
If your point is that this is karma or poetic justice, and that we deserve decimation, please remember that the Native Americans fought back just as we must fight back.

(I may be mistaken about the number of paternal greats. I do know we were involved in the civil war and that I'm related to Jesse James, b 1847.)
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Don't be drawn into this baiting GL...
 

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