In article nk.net,
Rudy Canoza wrote:

Kurt Ullman wrote:
In article nk.net,
Rudy Canoza wrote:


I think what the original poster meant is that waves of
immigrants in the past were able to come to the United
States because there were no laws restricting
immigration - at least, not laws they recognized as
legitimate.

Your point is correct: they were not "illegal
immigrants" because they weren't violating any law,
since such a law didn't exist. It's obviously
impossible to say what immigration patterns and numbers
would have been had there been such laws, since we
can't retroactively conduct experiments.

Of course it did. There have been limits on immigration for most of
the history of the US

False.

True. I put the reasons for my statement down in writing. You
wanna try to at least give me reason why I should change my mind. False
ain't gonna cut it.