Florida Builds ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center for Migrants in Everglades

What would be wrong with that? My great grandparents showed up on Ellis Island unannounced and were given a path to citizenship. Our country is built on immigration. We had a bill that would have streamlined the process. People are trying to do it the right way, it’s the system that is making it next to impossible.

 

LOL apparently your great grandparents immigrated the right way if they showed up on Ellis Island.....Trying to do it the right way? How is that by swimming the Rio Grande?

 

No, back then they just paid to get on the boat. Some didn't even have identification. Their paperwork would be stamped with W.O.P = With Out Papers. When they got here they were looked over by a doctor and had to answer questions about the US. Questions a lot of maga couldn't answer



When immigrants arrived at Ellis Island, they were funneled through a line in the Great Hall. In addition to medical examinations, they spent several hours answering questions. They were asked 29 questions with the help of an interpreter, including these:

• Are you meeting a relative here in America? Who?
  
  
• Have you been in a prison, almshouse, or institution for care of the insane?
  
  
• Are you a polygamist? Are you an anarchist? (Either of these are apparently ok today)
  
  
• Are you coming to America for a job? Where will you work?
  
  
• Are you deformed or crippled?
  
  
• Who was the first President of America?
  
  
• What is the Constitution?
  
  
• Which President freed the slaves?
  
  
• Can you name the 13 original Colonies?
  
  
• Who is the current President of the United States?
  

How many they had to get right, I have no idea. But after that, they could enter the country. We all come from immigration, and while no one wants criminals, why can't the majority have a chance at a better life while enriching our country?

Crossing the Rio Grande or crammed into a boat for days, what difference does it make? Both show how much they want a better life.

How did your family arrive?

 

Dumb plan. As we've seen in multiple elections, they're just as likely to vote R. And the rest is right there for everyone to see.

 

legal immigration not an invasion

 

FGM said
How did your family arrive?

Mine came over on a ship in 1770 with a land grant(150 acres) in rural SC from the King of England

 

Most of my family came here in the 1700s and early 1800s. There is one distant branch of my family tree that was native to Florida. I prefer to think she was Miccosukee but she may well have been Seminole, ain't that some shit? I believe she was my grandmother's grandmother. There used to be an old photo of her in her Indian garb. It burned up when the old family homestead burned down a few years ago.

 

Interesting. I guess we can tell what side your family was on during the Revolutionary War.