--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" <wgm4u@...> wrote:
> I was talking about *illegal* immigrants, who carry disease, poverty and > crime due to improper screening. * * Ha! Reminds me of my ancestors, whose diseases wiped out the native population in New England the early 1600s. My ancestors were also poverty-stricken, completely unprepared for the New England winters, but fortunately survived (in part) by scavenging the stores left behind by all the Indians who had "by God's grace" died of European smallpox (etc.) shortly before. Whether my ancestors were "illegal" is debatable -- "unwelcome" is certain -- but they certainly weren't properly screened! I doubt Ravi speaks Spanish....(in case you didn't know, it's the second most spoken language *in these parts*). > * * Not too surprising, as the Spanish owned the entire area before we took it from them. The Mexican War was by all accounts a pretty immoral one, if not downright illegal -- there was a *lot* of controversy about it at the time, as to the New England contingent it appeared to be prosecuted primarily to give the South more slave-holding territory.
