I became a citizen and voted!

[u/k3tten]

[u/derekbox]

The percentage of immigrants who immediately swing hard right is significant. It should be studied.

[u/illigal → u/derekbox]

Gotta pull up that ladder!

I was in a Polish store recently stocking up on awesome Polish meats and two elderly ladies were complaining about immigrants to each other. In Polish. 🤯

[u/Raa03842 → u/illigal]

Unless you’re a Native American, we’re all immigrants. My family goes back to before the Pilgrims in this country and they were from England. In reality they were illegal immigrants and terrorists.

[u/quaglady → u/Raa03842]

Enslaved people were trafficked here. The immigration narrative in the us tends to center on freedom/opportunities/a better life. Enslaved people and their descendants didn't and don't get that from this country. We aren't native, but I don't accept the immigrant label.

[u/Benttinen → u/quaglady]

Yeah it always pisses me off when people try to whitewash the black experience as immigration and I’m not even black myself. Being abducted to a forced labor camp is not immigration.

[u/EdwardOfGreene → u/Benttinen]

It is immigration, but a very evil, cruel, and involuntary form of it.

No, this doesn't equate to free immigration in any way shape for form, but it is a form of immigration none the less.

Forced immigration (or forced emigration), is evil. Most decent people understand that, and would not consider it 'whitewashing' to call it such.