We're kinda going through a similar disaster in Canada, "sending back" many Portuguese who had come here claiming refugee status under a different political situation than the current one in Portugal. These people were not sucking off the system, they were hard-working, family-loving people. Many of our cities were built, literally, with the sweat off their backs. Many of them bore children in Canada while waiting for refugee claims to go through. Those children were also forced to leave with their parents. Leave the only world they knew.

Our countries were built by immigrants. So few of us are the native peoples off this land we inhabit. It is strange how quick we are to turn on the people, who struggled to get here, much like our ancestors.

I think Chris Rock says it best. [paraphrasing] "If you struggled to get here... if you floated in on a raft from some place, you're American. You deserve to be American. If you come out your mother's p*ssy in Detroit? You're just lucky."
