Reply #41: Do you?

[Chulanowa]

Seriously. Allow me to explain it to you.

More than ten million immigrants were processed through Ellis Island. Know how long it took on to process an immigrant, on average?

Two hours.

Two hours. You wait at the station for a day or two, then you get to talk to an official, and you're on a barge to the mainland in two hours.

The ancestors of over a hundred million Americans got citizenship in less than a day after applying. Only two percent were turned away, primarily because they were suffering diseases such as syphilis or tuberculosis.

Now, I fully support this sort of immigration. You show up at the border, demonstrate that you're not carrying ebola and aren't packing bombs, sign your name, welcome aboard, citizen. Question is... do you?