Irony: Tomi Lahren's ancestor was prosecuted for forging immigration papers
Now, lets back up for a moment: The concept of illegal immigration didnt exist in the U.S. until the late 19th century, when the blatantly racist Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 became the first federal law to regulate newcomers to the U.S. The same racial bias extended into the 1924 Immigration Act, which established quotas for immigration from different parts of the worldquotas that heavily favored western Europe. (Jeff Sessions is a big fan,saying the act was good for America in a 2015 interview with none other than Steve Bannon.)
omewhere in between, Tomi Lahrens great-great-grandfather Constantin Dietrich came to the U.S. from the city of Odessa, then part of South Russia. Dietrichs obituary says he came to the U.S. in 1905, and he initially applied to become a naturalized American citizen in 1909. However, once he did the paperwork conservatives are always screaming about, he changed the date of his original declaration from 1909 to 1911, because he waited too long to complete the process, and needed to fudge the numbers in order to disguise the period where he waswait for itundocumented. He got caught, though, and went on trial for forgery in Bismarck, North Dakota in 1917. He was ultimately acquitted.
Now, none of this is all that unusual. Many Americans (at least, those whose ancestors were not brought here unwillingly as slaves) have stories like this in their backgrounds. The reason for bringing this up is to point out that attempting to criminalize large swaths of the American population by branding them illegals is not about law and order. Its about cruelty and racism, and its ahistorical bullshit to boot. That, and if the Russians want Tomi Lahren back, they can absolutely have her.
https://www.avclub.com/today-in-irony-tomi-lahrens-ancestor-was-prosecuted-fo-1802682206