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New rule: to comment negatively about immigrants, you have to first disclose why your own family members immigrated to the US seeking a better life, and why people facing much worse shouldn’t have the same opportunity. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Mine abandoned their farm in Switzerland to get on a boat to avoid being beheaded for being the wrong variety of fundamentalist christians. And then many fled to Canada bc they wouldn't take (revolutionary) oaths here. We ran away bravely and often. And welcome the persecuted.
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What was the time frame? I know my great-great grandmother was born in Switzerland but I don't know why she ended up in rural Iowa.