I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
It’s about damn time. AOC is a hero. She’s one of the best out there, fighting daily against Trump’s fascist bullshit.
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I am saddened by the number of my 2nd generation immigrant friends of Latinx and otherwise
-even my relatives in Hawaii, who buy the right-wing media spin on this issue. How soon we forget these folks were many of us, once upon a time. Why isn't the counter message of Truth being broadcast daily with as much vigor?
All of us, except native Americans, had immigrants somewhere in our family background. Does anyone remember the faux45 saying “we’re full” ? America has been and hopefully always will be, a multicultural melting pot.
Some Native Americans too but 15 to 40000 years ago if one accepts the theory of their Siberian origins particularly concerned apparently are the Dene peoples that include amongst others the Navajo.
There were other ancient migrations, not just the commonly known Siberian one. Migrations up from the Columbian region through Central America and into the Southwest. For an excellent review see Graham Hancock "America Before". This back and forth migration has been going on for thousands of years. Mostly driven by climate changes (is that PC?) but now political instability in Central America. Obama had it right. Go to the root cause and the source of what's driving it. Rant off.
For the neophite there is also Charles Mann's 1491. The last thing i read on the subject was on "gene/dna" research in archeological finds of human remains which both predate any finds in Europe and bear no relation to possible Asian origins. This was at a site in the Amazon Basin.
Charles Mann is an outstanding popularizer of history and archeology. As a journalist, he is prone to a journalistic habit: interviewing authors instead of reading their books. But 1491 and 1493 are well-written and quite accurate.