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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExcuse me, the number of people who are immigrants in this country is 100%
Not really 20%, contrary to what Miller and Bannon say. Their biggest lie of all.
bdamomma
(66,279 posts)a nation of immigrants. Keep on fueling that stupid base they are so wrong with this shit
dsc
(52,606 posts)despite our best efforts a few did survive.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)unblock
(54,129 posts)try selling that to france. or japan. or greece. or...
Xipe Totec
(44,045 posts)Ms. Toad
(35,469 posts)JennyMominFL
(224 posts)Slaves were not immigrants
unblock
(54,129 posts)while they are certainly voluntary in most cases, i don't know if these words specifically exclude involuntary changes in country of residence.
sociologists say that populations change through 4 means: birth, death, immigration, and emigration. i think it's just meant to refer someone being added to one country while subtracted from another. nothing implied about how or why that happened.
but that may be too much of a jargon term usage. common usage certainly at least suggests voluntary.
unblock
(54,129 posts)i suppose if you go way, way back far enough, they also came here from asia via what's now the aleutian islands, i think, but that's kinda stretching a point.
ladym55
(2,577 posts)Wonder how well THEY spoke English. They were escaping pogroms in Eastern Europe.
Stephen Miller is just despicable. There are no other words.
fierywoman
(8,103 posts)100 percent immigrants.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Yupster
(14,308 posts)before there was a country to immigrate to?
Also, Texans became Americans when Texas joined the Union. At that point they became immigrants?
Hawaiians too? They became immigrants in 1959?
As Inino Montoya said, I don't think you're using that word correctly.
fishwax
(29,324 posts)Immigrants face a number of challenges and struggles (legal, psychological, etc.) which I'm not subject to.
egduj
(839 posts)I get it.
Iggo
(48,234 posts)But I's born here.