dude you must have an extremely limited ammount of knowledge on this subject if you have an american citizenship your not illegal. welcome to thinking.
everyone in america, spare native americans, are or were at some point unwelcome immigrants.
Its true. In the 19th century America just became a refuge for europeans from various parts of the continent. People wretched with the despair of poverty, oppression and hard times looked to the land of the west for new hope. Its like the mexicans right now but they swam over the pond instead of jumping the wall.
Anyways, these aliens were definitely unwelcome. Canada too, as welcoming and multicultural as they are now, held them in distasteful regard as the garbage of Europe contaminating America's roots. Canadians wanted to welcome immigrants to populate the country and provide them with lands for farming only if they were stout and healthy Britishers.
wow what the fu**. how do topics end up like this?
dudeman, stop trying to be clever with your "the only true americans are native, thus every white person is pretty much illegal." statement. while it contains elements of truth, its not necessarily correct. the north america we have today reflects the north america that the europeans created, unwelcome as they may have been. that to me, justifies the country "belonging" (for lack of a better word) to the europeans that came over, even if they did take it forcefully and brutally. if they did not, do you think it would even be called "america?" of course not. then, you would be correct and whites/europeans would be considered illegal.