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Originally Posted by seven
Really? Did the natives of the U.S. send out an invitation to your granparents in some hunger-striken poor Itallian village requesting them to migrate to the U.S.? or did they approve their moving to their land after gracefully?  If neither, your grandparents came here as illegally as any .45 cents mexican Jose  |
Not true at all. The laws at the time that my Grandparents came here were much more open, done for a number of reasons.
Immigrants were invited to this country at that time, should they fill out the proper paperwork, and prove they had a trade that would contribute to the general economy. I understand that the paperwork may have been much less, but nonetheless, their migration here was 100% legal, they obtained social security numbers legally, learned the language, raised a family, and did it all by the book.
What they did not do is pile into the trunk of a car (or boat in their time...lol) and illegally enter the country. Rules are rules.