Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Cog wrote:If it was in any way a legal immigration proceeding, there would have been a border agent accepting her visa documents when she went through that door. The Busch super bowl commercial showed a guy going through Ellis Island. There was still an immigration message in there but more nuanced.
hvacman wrote:Cog wrote:If it was in any way a legal immigration proceeding, there would have been a border agent accepting her visa documents when she went through that door. The Busch super bowl commercial showed a guy going through Ellis Island. There was still an immigration message in there but more nuanced.
That aspect of the ad - Busch going through immigration and getting his visa stamped - bothered me, as it did not represent how the Germans or any other immigrants were processed when they came over in the mid-1800's. They didn't go through Ellis Island. Busch arrived in 1857. There was no Ellis Island until 1900. The Federal government did not even regulate immigration until 1890. They states did, if they bothered to at all. At least from Europe, immigrants just got on a boat, traveled to the US, got off, and went wherever they were going to go. No visas. No passports. No customs. Just go. Busch was an "undocumented" immigrant.
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