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.
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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.
Some of mine left the Germanies to avoid the religious wars, went to England and found that their timing was ... not good and came over here.
My Scots ancestors mostly left because they'd been on the losing sides of wars or political disagreements.
Aye, and I suspect my Irish ancestor (who came over a few decades before the famine) was probably descended from Scots who'd been shipped over to go bother the Irish.
