Here's something you didn't learn in US History: The Statue of Liberty has nothing to do with immigrants or (voluntary) immigration.
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The Statue of Liberty was supposed to be a monument to America's freed slaves.
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I’m moving into your neighborhood.
The only difference between the illegal immigration that founded the United States and the illegal immigration those descendants are fighting so hard against is intent. White people illegally immigrated here to claim, displace, and take over. Immigrants, illegal or otherwise, are not coming over in massive numbers to displace Americans and take over the country, regardless of how many times Republican talking heads want us to believe that.
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Nevermind economic aid, most of us don’t even realize Puerto Ricans are American.
Now we have an American almost-state where 45% of the population is in poverty, 150 schools have been shut down in the past few years, and sales tax has been raised 4.5% all the way to 11.5% because the mainland treated Puerto Rico like an island paradise where business regulations don’t matter.
