were  the pilgrims "legal aliens? did they  get a visa  from the navajo consulate?
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theonlybeldin\nI love your answer, it's about time someone said it.
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You are right. According to the pew Hispanic research center the vast majority of illegal Mexicans were gainfully employed before crossing into America. I saw an interview on an Arizona news show. The interview was with a 16 year old girl who thought she could cross the desert. She was lucky the border patrol found her. When she was asked what preparations she had made for her journey she said none, then she was asked how far she had ever walked at on time before and her response was from one end of the mall to the other. When asked if she would try to enter illegally again she said yes.
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Yes, it's believed they were Indian nomads. \nThey did NOT come from Romania, originally.
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My advice would be to check with the Native American Rights Fund, (www.narf.org).  Their entire existence involves such issues.  Most surround the US government's violation of existing treaties with tribal groups, illegal selling of native antiquities, and the refusal of the US government to officially recognize tribal groups.  I suspect there are many others issues as well.
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I know a Salvadoreño who left his job as a university professor and fled his country with his wife several years ago because he was persecuted by his colleagues and the local government at that time.  His wife went back there a few months later to escort their children to the U.S.  It has been a financial struggle because no U.S. institutions recognize his educational credentials but he has always been able to find work.  They purchased a nice home and raised their children.  The children are all bilingual without a trace of Spanish in their English.  My friend coaches soccer on Saturdays.  I think he they are Mormons
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There was no immigration.  The answer you will recieve by most people here is that we migrated over the alaska land bridge from siria. However this fact has now been disproven by the findings of bones that carbon date the previous estimation by 15,000 years, so we were here long before the "land bridge" was in existance.\n\nNow, thought our oral history we've been here since time beginning.
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To be able to help you, I wouldneed you to add to your question (so I could find it again).  You would ned to list the City and State in which they reside.  THat would be a great start.  One question I would like answered, is this on the Indian Reservation?  \n\nDid he or they apply for  Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA)?  Maybe not, if they were disable prior.  \n\nAnyway, be more specific.  Indian reservation or not?  It matters if you want good answers.\n\nIndians there suffer, however Indians here in the Great Northwest get checks every month becasue of their fortune.  Below is a story of just how bad these Indians have it.\n    Jun 30, 2002\n\n    Wildfire Leaves Apaches With Misery--and Pain\n\n    By TOM GORMAN and STEVE BERRY , LA Times Staff Writers\n\n    WHITERIVER, Ariz. -- Even in good times, this Apache Indian reservation community struggles from paycheck to paycheck. The 60- year-old homes need paint and screens, fences miss slats, hulks of old cars sit abandoned in backyards.\n\n    For hundreds of Apaches, Wednesday's paychecks will be the last for months because their forest has burned. Fire robbed the town of its main livelihood: ponderosa pines to be milled at the tribe's Fort Apache Timber Co.\n\n    "We will go broke by the end of the month," said Cindy Bennett as her husband picked up his last paycheck Wednesday at the mill.\n\n    About 70% of the 330 employees at the tribal company's two mills were laid off Monday as the Rodeo-Chediski fire, the nation's largest, raged through the White Mountains of northeastern Arizona. The remaining employees will be out of work in two weeks.\n\n    The fire's devastation is being felt throughout Navajo County at least 339 homes destroyed, 410,000 acres of forest charred.\n\n    But perhaps nowhere is the economic fallout of the fire felt more immediately than by the White Mountain Apache Tribe.\n\n    In coming days, hundreds of Apaches will run out of money to buy food and medicine. The tribe already has lost millions of dollars in revenue that goes toward a variety of social services and the cost of running its government. There are no trees to cut for the mills, no elk to attract hunters, no tourists to gamble in its casino or fill its motels and restaurants all revenue that feeds the tribe's general coffers.\n\n    The pain is felt in other ways too: Apaches are frequently targeted with icy stares when they shop off the reservation, blamed for the fire because it started on their reservation. There is resentment, too, that the Apaches' suffering is going unnoticed, with so much attention being paid to the plight of the other mountain residents.\n\n    "It was all Show Low this and Show Low that," said Sandra DeClay, referring to the city north of here that was besieged by the blaze.\n\n    "We are suffering," said Dallas Massey Sr., chairman of the tribe, which has 12,000 adult members. "Even before this, we had so many unmet needs, in infrastructure, in housing."\n\n    Indeed, this tribe was already in a world of hurt. Before this week's layoffs, unemployment stood at a staggering 60%. Household income for a full half of the families is below poverty level.\n\n    The reservation's beauty belies the economic hardships of those living here; most of its 1.6 million acres are carpeted in ponderosa pines; streams and lakes attract anglers, elk attract the hunters.\n\n    But in Whiteriver, where tribal government is headquartered in two, one-story brick buildings, there are only a handful of businesses a band, a gas station, a restaurant and small motel among others.\n\n    For the last seven years, Nelson Bennett Jr., 37, made a living sorting and stacking freshly cut lumber. He earned about $800 a month; most of it went for groceries and the $235 car payment for his '93 Chevrolet, chronically in need of repair.\n\n    And then there's the utilities, and medicine, and the occ
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In the following states legal residence is not required to apply for a driver's license: Alaska, Hawaii, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. In addition, states that have verification loopholes are: the District of Columbia, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina,  North Dakota, and Tennessee.\nSome states  require immigrants to report to special centers and the DLs have the temporary visa status stamped on them.\n\nYou mean illegal immigrants shouldn't be permitted to get driver's licenses?
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kill them?  Good thing the natives the pilgrims found didnt belive the same thing eh?  Kill them, really?  Whjy, b/c they want a better life for themselves and families?  When the only thing your and my family had to do back in the day was make it across the pond alive and they were let in?  Because they came over in ships and Mexicans swim or wade across a river they are somehow different?  Americans like you make me ashamed to be American.  What is it about them you don't like?  The fact they scrub toilets and make beds or the fact they wash dishes and paint houses?  Are you in the market for those jobs?  If so, then, lol, I MUST say to you, finish high school or get a GED and for Christ's sake get an associates degree and stop complaining about a part of the American society that at one time, all of our families were apart of you ignorant piece of trash.
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YES, for all the reasons Roosevelt said. They should not come here illegally and expect us to recognize their language and culture. In addition, we should NOT be giving them government handouts like free medical care, ssi, housing, etc unless they become American citizens and get a job to support themselves and their families.
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I looked it over.  It sounds might suspicious to me.  It seems to be offering free services to people who win the Green Card Lottery run by the State Department.  Therefore, the thing to do would be to contact the State Department and ask them whether this site is legal, and is known to be honest.\n\nEspecially on the Internet, whenever a thing sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't.  Or rather, it has some hidden aspects.  For example, these people may indeed offer some assistance to incoming immigrants; but what do they want in exchange?  What is their reason for offering?  Whose interests do they serve?  You need to answer these questions before you trust your private information to them, let alone get on an airplane they have sponsored.  Could you even trust it was going to the destination they told you?\n\nGood luck!
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I can vouch that what the other posts are saying are true. The Osage just won their sovereignty, and they had to come up with their own constitution. Vote with elections just like we do for president etc. Native American tribes had many forms of govt before people showed up here, they are trying to gain some freedom in getting those govts back. It is a good thing actually.
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There is an asylum procedure which is outside ordinary immigration channels.  I don't know if they qualified, though.  Also, it is possible people doubted their story as to why they were there.  In that case, you just have three Iraqis entering the country illegally through the Southern border. Post 9/11, I don't mind our border control taking a good hard look at that.\n\nI don't know anything about the situation other than what is in your question, though.
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Some of the tribe kept their beliefs in patches, but almost all Native Americans were either killed or converted to Christianity like my Cherokee ancestors.\n\nhttp://www.cherokeebyblood.com/religion.htm#B\nhttp://www.meta-religion.com/World_Religions/Ancient_religions/North_america/navajo_religion.htm
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The Navajo Nation (Navajo: Naabeehó Dine'é) is a sovereign Native American Tribe of Indians, traditionally known as, Diné. The Navajo Indian Reservation covers about 27,000 square miles (70,000 square kilometres) of land, occupying all of northeastern Arizona, and extending into Utah and New Mexico, and is the largest land area assigned primarily to a Native American jurisdiction within the United States. The 2000 census reported 298,215 Navajos living throughout the United States, of which 173,987 were living within the Navajo Nation boundaries. 131,166 lived in Arizona. 17,512 of these lived in Maricopa County, which includes the city of Phoenix. Because the Navajo Nation encompasses land in three states, its Division of Economic Development extracts census data for the Navajo Nation as a whole, and sends a representative to the Census Board. Another group lives on the Colorado River Indian Tribes reservation along the Colorado River in California and Arizona.\n\nEach tribe establishes its own requirements for being an enrolled tribal member, which is usually based on "blood quantum." The Navajo Nation requires a blood quantum of one-fourth for a person to be an enrolled tribal member and to receive a Certificate of Indian Blood (CIB). In comparison, some tribes require a one-thirtysecond blood quantum for issuing a CIB. Recently, the Navajo Tribal Council voted down a proposal to reduce the blood quantum to one-eighth, which would have effectively doubled the number of individuals qualified to be enrolled Navajo tribal members.
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You Can ask but They never Stop!!!  They Thinks its their Duty to Save YOU and Me!!!\nSister:\nI'm Native American I hope my prayers are Welcome!!!\nCome For a Visit!!!\n\nHokahe
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Yes, mine came legally as well.  Those who compare want to open the borders to all.  "Just let everyone in"  is their philosophy.  But they don't think it through. When does it stop?  Or doesn't it?  Let in a billion people?  That is why every country in the world including Mexico have border and immigration rules.  Those crying for illegal immigrants to just be granted legal status will surely be the same ones crying for higher taxes  for otherrs to pay for their education, medical care, housing, etc.  They'll want the so-called "rich" to support them, the rich being anyone who makes more than they do.\n\nYou know if you ask those who are applying for citizenship now, who took the time and trouble to learn English, who have family in other countries waiting to come to the U.S. in the legal way, who have worked hard since coming to the U.S. and have done their share of what is called the menial jobs, they will tell you that they aren't too happy with others who might get citizenship for breaking the law.   If you talk to others whose relatives have had to return to their native land because their visa or extension was denied, you will hear them saying they are not too pleased either that others are getting in because they broke the  law.  Those who returned home wiill try again but shall we call them "stupid" for doing it the legal way?\n\nNote:  At one time there was a land bridge from Alaska, a footbridge, so from where did the native americans come?  I suggest an answerer up above research that.