Chapter 13

     One of the things that people are interested is where people are from, and how they got here. Admittedly some of those people just want to kick other people out of the country. When this country itself was created by immigrants, or descendants of immigrants. But then, even before the United States of America was a country, there were people that did not want anymore immigrants coming over.
     In the United States there seems to be a feeling that what we already have, is all that we are going to need, and that whoever is trying to come now, is not going to help the United States become a better country, economic power, ect. There also seems to be the stereotype of the immigrant that is lazy and using the government for their own gains, instead of being hard workers.
     But there are different immigrant groups that people seem to prefer. In the 19th century, German born were preferred over Irish born. Presently the main concern for anti immigration seems to be people from Mexico.
     Now immigrants do some of the jobs that most people would not consider doing, no matter what they got paid for it. Yet people seem to think that immigrants are stealing jobs from people. Except that those are the jobs that people do not want.
     My family, as far as I know, the majority came over in the late 19th century, but a few came some time before that. Most of them became farmers. Although I am not sure how much of that history has been cleaned up and made presentable by different family members. There is a story about how some of my family members changed their name on the ship over here, from Cromwell to Crowell, because at the time Cromwell was rather unpopular. Some of the others came over because their farm got burned down by their neighbors, because their neighbors did not agree with their politics.