Why not tho? And btdubs, plenty of people do that type of thing. I live in FL, I know.

Same here, my grandpa came from Italy with his family. He ended up having to change his name to get a job. This is after his parent's bank shut down in the great depression, where they sold everything to pay everyone.

American is in a sad state. Extreme Liberal politics have destroyed it.

Plenty of blame to go around. There is a stark difference with todays immigrants.

Let's just say the country is very Liberal now with much of its politics are attributed to its downfall.

Policies do have to take the front seat though. Sanctuary cities, now talk of a sanctuary state. Illegals getting driver's licenses etc. It is the Liberal policies that brought those bits of encouragement on. BTW, I think he was saying "up" something else :)

Its one of the biggest issues I have with Obama, his job in large part is to oversee enforcement of federal law, NOT choose which ones are to be enforced. All sanctuary cities should be cut off from federal funds. THIS is the FEDS job, not telling the states who can use bathrooms where.

Sorry, but that is the idea. People vote out morons, change state and local policies or flat out move all the time when they are caught up in things like this. Its your choice support criminal behavior of your local and state officials or get fed funds. IT CAN"T GO ON WITH BOTH. They are in direct defiance, knew they would be in direct defiance and defy anyone to properly enforce against it. There is absolutely NO public policy that everyone agrees on and some get hurt by, fact of life. I'm for sure not for big brother government but this is NOT an example of that, this is simply enforcing laws already on the books.

That is so much the point of this meme, and like or dislike Trump it is part of what he has been preaching about currency manipulation making all of this a viable option. Instead of cleaning/fixing up their own country it is easier for them to come here. In no way do I say all that do come here are bad, I am saying the system is all f-d up on both sides of the border and no one seems to want to stop counting votes long enough to fix it.

call them what they are, illegals

That would be the first "STARK" difference.

For this meme subject it's Liberal politics. Conservatives have there's but obviously another meme is needed. I had no idea a simple notion would blow up this big.

My grandfather came here from Italy also. It was during the 1930s. He told us kids that when the boat got into New York harbor he could see The Statue of Liberty. He said he knelt down on the ships deck and started to pray. He thanked God he finally made it.

Did he go through Ellis Island? If so, there is a book there with his name, personal information and relatives names. My grandfather's is there. He came here in 1910

I should look. Is it available on line?

Yes, I found a bunch of info on my grandparents including photos of the book page with his information on Ancestry.com. You might be able to research other ways but Ancestry is easy.

It wasnt just imagrants who had that happen tho, many, many people had been labeled as untrustworthy, meaning trade(the only way to get things in the depression) was impossible unless they changed there name

My family (German immigrants) has lived in America since the late 1700's. I can't really relate to people whose grandparents (or great-grandparents, etc.) came over in the 1900's, but I bet the (last name)s felt honored to move here.

I have to check it out.

That came after my grandfather was here but possible. Cement shoes were in fashion back then. I wonder how many are actually at the bottom of the Great Lakes.

Wait, are you comparing italians to another race or just saying?

I'm Italian so I used my heritage for the meme but the Irish and Jewish Europeans who came over during that time also followed the rules and were damn proud to here. I'm comparing the difference in policy from then and now concerning immigration. Now it's a disgrace.

ah, I see. So you're saying that immigrants now are trying to force their ways on us.

"sigh" typical ignorance and assumption. Grow up.

Grand father on my mom's side came here from Austria after WW1. He served in a u boat in the German navy. Came here and became a citizen and got a job and started a family. During WW2 the feds opened all his mail and read it. He was thinking of changing his last name to be more transparent but never did.

haha oaky

Try giving thought as to why many couldn't compared to now? I know you can. Give it a try.

Wow, really thought you would come back with something better. That took absolutely no thought or intelligence to create. Try again.

Even worse. What a waste of time. Your generation is screwed.

But they didn't try to blame it on the english speakers around them for not speaking their language, and they wanted to learn as much as they could. Most didn't learn because A. They didn't have to because they moved to isolated communities of people from their land, (For instance, my grandpa lived on The Hill in St. Louis, an Italian town) or B. Tried to learn english but were too old and too busy working to fully learn it.

Has it occurred to you that the same circumstances apply to immigrants in modern times? Many live in neighborhoods dominated by their own ethnic group. Additionally, those that are employed typically work long hours for minimum wage (or less), meaning that they are too poor and too busy to learn English. Their children, however, end up being bi-lingual from spending time in a foreign-language home and an English-language public education system. Even now, in 2016, very little has changed for immigrants from the way it was 120 years ago.

Nonsense. Many choose not to bother or even try. When the government and corporate leeches are so busy trying to figure out how to suck the life force from a nation by expending tax dollars (paid by middle class Americans) to provide multi-lingual options for everything, why should an illegal Salvadoran mother of 6 who receives $$$$$$ in benefits even try to learn anything except where the welfare office is located? BTW she can call any town USA for that info and press 2 for Spanish.

I was going to comment in whole to your post but after reading the last bit I just can't fathom your stupidity. The ways are available. Most don't care. Want proof? Go to Miami.

Okay, I will. Many government services were provided only in English, and most first-generation immigrants never learned how to speak the language because they lived in ethnic neighborhoods. The second generation, however, typically had no trouble understanding English because they attended English-only public schools.

Right..... But now we provide government services in many different languages so no one really has to attempt to assimilate into the society they willingly joined. Generally speaking, as a professional I have found that those who immigrate legally do all they can to become part of the US while maintaining their culture and language. The illegals do not.