Letter: Immigration is not same as colonization

The people who immigrated here in the past from Europe and Asia and all parts of the globe shared one thing in common. They wanted to be part of a country that allowed them to be free and to have an opportunity to advance. For that privilege they adapted and adopted the customs, the laws, and the Constitution.

The Muslim refugees who want to immigrate and become Americans are always welcome. The Muslims who want to colonize here by choosing to stay in their culture, laws and obedience to Sharia at the expense of our Constitution are not.

Colonization is the leaving of one's own country and going to another country to establish their native country's culture in the new land.

The last time we had colonization in the U.S.A., it did not work out so well for the native population, "the Indians."

So, yes let's have immigration but not colonization or we will end up like all those other nations and natives that thought they could co-exist with an overpowering determination to set up a new homeland on a faraway shore.

History always repeats.

James Cuff

This story was originally published December 19, 2015 at 9:40 PM with the headline "Letter: Immigration is not same as colonization."