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TOTAL LICENSING
By George Medina, Intercontinental Licensing
RECENT NEWS me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearn- cities. They worked on the tobacco plantations be-
A month ago, after much debate, an ambitious at-
ing to breathe free”! cause by 1617 the first shipment of Virginia tobacco
tempt to change America’s immigration system failed
We are all a nation of immigrants! (originally grown in the Spanish West Indies) was
in Congress and it does not seem that the proposal
The pilgrims arrived off Cape Cod on the Mayflower shipped to England from Jamestown and in time
will be revised any time soon. This of course was
on November 9, 1620 and created this “nation of Virginia planters became a luxurious and moneyed
a shock and did not change the present confusing
the free”. class.
situation that everyone feels is in need of repair.
America is a melting pot. In Maryland, George Calvin, the first Lord Balti-
Homeland Security Chief, Michael Chertoff said:
Israel Zangwill created this long lasting phrase when more, was a Roman Catholic and colonized Mary-
“In the light of this failure, federal agencies have no
he titled his play of 1909 “The Melting Pot” and land as a haven of refuge for his catholic country-
choice, but to redouble efforts to enforce existing
wrote of a “new man”. men, feeling oppression from England’s Protestant-
laws, and crack down on the hiring of illegal aliens”.
While there was some truth in all this, as the char- ism of the time. Later, in time, their descendants
He announced a new procedure that declares that
acter, ‘Sportin’ Life’ in George Gershwin’s American changed to Anglicanism (later Episcopalianism).
all employers must verify that social security num-
Negro opera, “Porgy and Bess” sings cynically: “It Aint Into New England, Puritans kept coming and
bers, a basic requirement for employment, match
Necessarily So”. many of them were craftsmen, artisans and hus-
the photographs and names, which will be stored
• Though some 60 million Europeans did arrive in band-men who by 1700 made up approximately
and available soon, in a Social Security Administra-
the USA since Plymouth Rock - should history re- 100,000 of the 300,000 Europeans and descen-
tion database containing images of all permanent
member the uncounted “red men” that were of ne- dants by then living in the American colonies. Whal-
residency cards issued.
cessity driven away or exterminated by progressive ing and seafaring began and the lively trade with the
On the other hand, the Social Security Administra-
American expansion and colonization? British mother country resulted later in the famous
tion announced that more than $500 billion of earn-
• Should history remember the almost 10 million tea tax that started the “Boston Tea Party” and with
ings were reported last year by individuals whose
American slaves that were kidnapped mostly in it the American Revolution.
names do not match their social security numbers.
West Africa and brought to the Americas (including Germans (including German language speakers
Identify theft and forged documents are a common
the Caribbean sugar colonies – from where many from Switzerland and Austria): began to come in
tactic used by illegal aliens.
eventually came to the USA) during the four centu- quantity around the end of the 1600s including
One might comment that these people may be il-
ries from the mid 15
th
Century until 1870? many European persecuted sects, like: Quakers,
legal but that the money still flows into the U.S. Trea-
• While we are congratulating the “huddled masses” Mennonites, and Amish. These came under the
sury regardless of its source.
for their pluck in coming, should history remember leadership of their ministers. Some others, as was
Business groups complain that they’re being forced
how they came? Many came in steerage, on wooden the custom of the time, bound themselves into ser-
to act as immigration agents, and that there will be
ships where they were penned up, crowded like vice and became later free craftsmen and farmers
a worker shortage in key economic sectors, which
sheep or cattle in compartments below the water in places like Pennsylvania and Maryland.
might bring some production lines to a standstill.
line for some 3 - 5 weeks, to be disgorged into the The Scots/Irish were mostly Protestants from
Farmers also complain and report that their fruits
receiving arms of brokers for the agents that had Ulster, as were their Scottish cousins who came
and vegetables are going unpicked and rotting on
prepaid their passage, or, joined their earlier arrived in the 1700s and continued settlements via the
the vine for lack of workers.
relatives so that they could sleep 6 to 10 in a room “Great Philadelphia Road” west and southwards
Possibly before we continue we should remember a
trying to get used to a strange new world with an into the Carolinas and Appalachians. They became
quote from Edward Teller (father of the Hydrogen
non-understandable language. “frontiersmen” and so they advanced the American
Bomb): “Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast
(Lucky the English, Scots, and Irish who at least settlement.
and only catastrophe is clearly visible!”
could speak and understand). The Dutch famously founded New Amsterdam
So, do we have a catastrophe?
A beginning had to be made that often took two which soon became New York and except for their
Immigrants have always been a part of America’s
generations of toil and demanded the abandoning settlement of the Hudson River valley blended into
history and successive immigration waves have, in
of their learned skills in exchange for the raw labor the general American mix after defeat by the Eng-
fact, largely influenced this history. Economic studies
of their aching backs. lish.
and romantic memories abound and have become a
Not so The French who as a colonial power
COLONIAL TIMES AMERICAN
part of our reflections. Let’s analyze and recall.
founded the first colonies in Canada, Louisiana and
IMMIGRATION
the Caribbean as well as Nova Scotia. Louisiana was
MYTHS
The English: They were the settlers in Virginia
French until 1762, then Spanish until 1800 and
Myths are deeply embodied in the American psyche:
who, at least half of them indentured servants, had
American after 1803. They were Catholics. Louisi-
In her famous poem, engraved at the base of the
to work off their passage over a term of 4 – 7 years
ana extended far North along the Mississippi River
Statue of Liberty, Emma Lazarus wrote about the
and would then receive land from the London pro-
and was sold by Napoleon Bonaparte, impoverished
“golden door” through which Lady Liberty invites
prietors who advertised Virginia as a land of milk
from his wars, to President Thomas Jefferson in the
newcomers to our shores entreating them to: “Give
and honey. Many came because of the misery and
famous bargain sale of the Louisiana Purchase.
poverty in 17
th
Century London and other English
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