The crowd that needs to hear this ain't listen', friend.

Off the top of my head I can think of three people that are first generation here. Two came illegally. One had a despised 'anchor baby' that she then used to bring her parents over.

I'm OK with deporting them, or herding them into the gulf of Mexico, whatever Trump's current plan is.

Their names are: Melania Trump Elon Musk Peter Thiel

DHS please rid us of these foreign criminals.

Many immigrants are lured into moving to Western countries with promises of a better life—safety, prosperity, and even the allure of things as trivial as Coca-Cola or a suburban home. The promise of no longer living under the threat of being shelled with U.S.-made weapons is understandably compelling.

But once they arrive in the very countries that invited them to "save the economy" and fill labor shortages, they’re suddenly labeled a national security threat. They’re painted as part of criminal gangs or conspiracies, blamed for societal issues, and treated as if their presence is an affront. In reality, their migration often isn’t about seeking a better life at all—it’s about enriching local businessmen who refuse to pay livable wages, instead trapping vulnerable people with exploitative worker visas.

They also revere Columbus, and call white Christians “real Americans.”

Mexicans are real Americans. White people in America are immigrants.

So I agree that this is awful, and our family is most definitely the result of immigrants coming here due to persecution in the country they were in.

But my MAGA family’s response to that? They were “legal” at the time (1700’s). These immigrants are coming here illegally.

Never mind that ~ 100 years ago my grandparents were punished at school (beaten) for speaking their native language there - because they made that illegal, too.

But they’re still the “speak English this is murica” MAGA types. But this time it’s different. They do not see the hypocrisy. They do not care. They just hate brown and black people.

George Carlin Youtube Short mildly related

[...]
In fact there are no natives anywhere in the world,
everyone is from somewhere else.
All people are refugees, immigrants or aliens.
If there are natives anywhere, it would have to be people still living in the Great Rift Valley in Africa.
So everyone is just visiting. [...] So much for native. [...]

I love Robert Reich but if he thinks we're gonna "well actually" our way out of xenophobia and racism he needs to do some more reading.

I would laugh at the schadenfreude if they introduced legislation to remove the citizenship of anyone whose family came to the country illegally, only to the have to report a ton more people some of whom would be white people who voted for him not thinking about the fact that their grandparents might have come in illegally.

My mother came to Canada from Ireland and when racist people she has volunteered or worked with have complainted about immigrants to her she just straight up ask them if that's what they think about her. They almost always stammer something about how she doesn't count somehow as an immigrant even though she is 100% an immigrant.

A lot of that was forgotten a long time ago.

Desperately needs to read Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Not a Nation of Immigrants

It's a distraction, it's important to remind people of the value and humanity of immigrants but hatred and anger is a byproduct of people struggling and the only major politicians who aren't ignoring them or gaslighting them that actually things are going great are the ones telling them immigrants are to blame. The left needs to get much, much better at organizing and the Democrats need to either go left for real or die as a neoliberal but with enough decency to not be preferred by anybody and to not be able to propagandize effectively.

What does crashlanding from space count as?

everyone is worth equally less. don't put yourself above others, we all come from a splash of jizz

Yes, but these immigrants did kind of ruined the entire continent, so not a great example...