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

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.

Gonna put this on a shirt. Oh bby

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.

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.

Immigration laws didn't exist until 1790, so prior to that anyone was free to come and go as they pleased, legally speaking.

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.

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.