This, but unironically. It is so historically illiterate of Americans to be against immigrant when everyone living on the country is descended from people who immigrated at earliest 300 years ago
More like 500 years. The oldest colonial capital is Santa Fe New Mexico, founded in 1610.
You might want to check that math, too.
Both 1525 and 1610 are > than 300 years ago.
it’s funny how white colonizers are exactly what they fearmonger about immigrants being lol. nothing but rapists and thieves
Of course “immigrant” is mostly a code word for “brown person” these days, but yes, this is an excellent illustration of the hipocrisy of being a settler and raging about immigrants.
Fuckin anchor babies.
Gonna put this on a shirt. Oh bby
I don’t actually know where I could be sent back to. Has the Jewish Slav diaspora mostly returned to the old Polish-Lithuania area, or did most of that crowd end up heading to Israel?
Also how are we defining legal? My family changed our last name and lied about our ancestry because the U.S. was denying Jews at the time, but I think everything else was legal by the laws of the time. That’s kinda why this argument doesn’t hold up. The genocide of the natives was horrible, certainly, but a pretty large number of people didn’t actually show up in the U.S. until much later. Are we still responsible for the crimes a country committed decades or even centuries before we started living there? because that opens up a much, much bigger can of worms globally.
Just call people out for being racist if they’re being racist, which most of the types screaming about illegal immigration are. but there are people with legitimate concerns around legal immigration.
The genocide of the natives was horrible, certainly, but
if you’re talking about a genocide, don’t follow it up with a “but”.
there are people with legitimate concerns around legal immigration.
no, there are not. people are real, borders are fake shit invented by shitty people to make themselves feel better than others based upon where they were born. the only problem with illegal immigration is that dumbasses are making laws about who gets to go where in the first place.
borders are as extant as time or justice, which is to say they’re a made-up concept that exists with a purpose. Immigration does have a purpose, unless we’re going to suddenly get rid of all countries and go to a stateless society which isn’t any time soon. People deserve to be able to have the laws and benefits of citizenry apply to them. Illegal immigrants effectively get the shittiest end of the stick by contributing to a country and receiving almost none of the benefits. The biggest problem with illegal immigration in the US is that the immigration courts are so backed up and underfunded that legal immigration is damn near impossible, forcing people into precarious and sometimes even dangerous situations. if you don’t think that’s a legitimate concern, then I have nothing else to say to you.
People deserve to be able to have the laws and benefits of citizenry apply to them.
way to miss the point entirely. there shouldn’t be citizens or illegal immigrants because there should be no difference between how two human beings are treated, and even if there was then white americans sure as fuck shouldn’t have an opinion on it. that’s the whole fucking point of the meme.
if you don’t think that’s a legitimate concern, then I have nothing else to say to you.
Interesting that you choose not to engage with their legitimate point. Almost as if you have no idea what your talking about and just wanted to tell at people in the Internet.
they didn’t have a legitimate point. immigration laws should not exist, anything further than that is pointless to argue about.
but
Fuck you
People had “borders” before and rules or customs for crossing them, even natives. This is our [hunting ground, sacred spot, summer grazing land] and they’d fight to keep it or others off of it. What is different now is the permanence of those borders, a State to keep them, and money to arrange them.
Shit point moron
To be fair, the Europeans conquered the land from the native Americans before they could get conquered or enslaved by the Aztecs or Incas
The fact that they couldn’t drive them away is just pure skill issue.
You’re a fucking idiot
Heck, if it wasn’t the European it would’ve been one of those two native American civilizations that did the conquering and enslavement.
“If we didn’t do it, somebody else would have” has to be the shittiest argument supporting genocide and colonialism that I’ve ever seen.
Immigration laws didn’t exist until 1790, so prior to that anyone was free to come and go as they pleased, legally speaking.
Fuck you
USA isn’t the only or first nation to exist on that land, people showing to your land and taking it by force seems very illegal, even if just by local customs
The left reconstituting a defeatest attitude by resurrecting old memes (as a form of venting) feels like the avoidance of something more radical that could formulate but hasn’t.
