When Do I Stop Being An Immigrant?

I keep hearing people referring to all of us as immigrants. What I would like to know is how many generations are required before someone in no longer classed as an immigrant? My 12th grandfather George Truitt came to this country in 1640, my family has been in America for 377 years, would this mean I can say I am not an immigrant?

It is my understanding an immigrant is a person who comes from another country to take up permanent residence. My grandfather George was an immigrant from England and took up permanent residence in Virginia in 1640. His children were native citizens of America, making his descendants native born citizens and not immigrants.

I hear that the only people who are native Americans are the American Indians. Here is an interesting fact. In a very recent study (February 2014) of the genome of a little boy, known as Anzick-1 who was buried in Montana belonging to the Clovis culture. His genome is the first ancient American genome to be sequenced fully. The data indicates that he, as well as all South American and north American native populations, descended from Siberian populations that crossed the Bering Strait when it was a land bridge. So, the native American Indian are not native but also immigrated to North America.

With this small amount of knowledge, any one coming into this country now from another country is an immigrant. If they were not born here, they are not native. Immigrants are here by invitation only. Our government sets the number of immigrants who can come into this country by a process that protect the native citizens of this country. When we allow those, who hate our culture and values and disrespect our form of government to come into our country, we endanger the native citizens.

I am tired of having people putting me on a guilt trip by talking about women and children who need our protection. My problem as I see it is the reality of young men who should be protecting the safety of their own country and fighting for their freedom and liberty coming to America as “refugees.” They are here while we are sending our own sons and daughters to protect their country at taxpayer expense. We are allowing some of the very people who are killing our sons and daughter in their country to come to our country under the guise of a “refugee” and supporting them with taxpayer money. These “refugees” are taking benefits that could go to support Americans. The Center for Immigration Studies estimates in the first five years each refugee from the Middle East cost taxpayers $64,370. That is 12 times what it cost to care for one refugee in a neighboring Middle Eastern country. A staggering 91 percent receive food stamps, and 68 percent receive cash assistance. Given the high cost, it would be better if we paid neighboring countries in the Middle East to take these refugees.

The Middle Eastern countries have the money and space for them. This is where they should go; their culture is welcome there. Americans have a different culture. We are approaching the Christian celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ how many Muslims will we be offended by our celebration that Jesus Christ is the resurrected LORD? What type of protest will be made that we are offending their “religion”?

Our president is right to protect the interest of the American people. No one should be allowed in this country until they have followed the proper process. America is a sovereign nation with borders that are put there to protect and secure the nation, and anyone who comes to this country should only be allow in by invitation and vetting.