by Anelisa

Created on: July 10, 2008

LANGUAGE BINDS US TO A NATION AND THAT IS WHY ONLY ENGLISH SHOULD BE SPOKEN IN OUR COUNTRY in our homes, schools, business, government, institutions, and in every aspect of our society. However, our students should learn as many other languages as possible since after all this is the 21st. CENTURY and we live in a global world. Anyone coming to our country to study or work must make it a top priority to learn ENGLISH.

IMMIGRATION TODAY IS A HOT ISSUE AND VERY COMPLEX but it has alway been. People do not leave their country and go to another for simple reasons so why should immigration be any different in our country, USA ?

AMERICA IS A COUNTRY OF IMMIGRANTS, unless of course one is a pure blood American Indian, and therefore OUR NATION IS THE WORLD. Many of the boys and girs playing in neighborhoods throughout our country, in schools (K-12), in universities, and wherever young people are: are grandchildren or great grandchildren of first generation immigrants. You can't tell them apart since they look like everyone else.

While today we hardly ever meet anyone who immigrated from EUROPE, many did in the late 40's and 50's. WWII DEVASTATED EUROPE. People had to keep on living as other people had done in past wars. THEY WERE THE SURVIVORS! Some were the only person who survived in their family while some who were lucky had two or three. There were very few families where the whole family survived.

Many picked up the pieces around them and stayed in Europe where they originally were. This was their home and country, whatever was left of it. The lives of millions were lost and so were their jobs, assets, and everything else that made their life secure. When the opportunity came for them to go to other parts of Europe where there was work they did. When immigration was possible to South America, Canada, United States, and other counties: many immigrated in search of work and a better life as well as a way to PUT THE WAR BEHIND THEM.

Some of these immigrants were from CENTRAL ITALY:ABRUZZI AND MOLISE REGIONS. For those who are familiar with that area, they know that there are many villages there and all as beautiful as a postcard, but not after the war. Each village was a bunch of rubble. Most of them are within an hour's drive from different directions of MONTECASSINO, THE CEMETERY OF SO MANY AMERICANS WHO GAVE THEIR LIFE.

For many it took as long as TEN YEARS from the time they applied to when they actually came to the The United States. First, they had to have a sponsor

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