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Rhiannon12866

(205,467 posts)
Fri Mar 1, 2024, 08:09 PM Mar 1

Texas Dem Beto O'Rourke blasts Trump: "Immigrants have made this country great" - MSNBC Reports



Fmr. Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) joins José Díaz-Balart to discuss the humanitarian crisis facing migrants - and to urge leaders to create legal pathways for them to enter the U.S. - Aired on 03/01/2024.
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Texas Dem Beto O'Rourke blasts Trump: "Immigrants have made this country great" - MSNBC Reports (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Mar 1 OP
I'm Still Waiting for Someone to Point Out to Trump... The_Counsel Mar 1 #1
You're completely right! Every single citizen of this country comes from immigrants, whether recent or centuries ago Rhiannon12866 Mar 1 #2

The_Counsel

(1,660 posts)
1. I'm Still Waiting for Someone to Point Out to Trump...
Fri Mar 1, 2024, 08:55 PM
Mar 1

…that HE’S PRACTICALLY AN IMMIGRANT HIMSELF!!

Didn’t his grandfather emigrate from Germany? I know my great-great-great grandfather came to the U.S. from what is now known as Nigeria. Based on that information, I'm far more American than he is…

Rhiannon12866

(205,467 posts)
2. You're completely right! Every single citizen of this country comes from immigrants, whether recent or centuries ago
Fri Mar 1, 2024, 09:15 PM
Mar 1

And same with me, maternal grandparents came from Poland, one set of paternal great grandparents from Ireland, but my paternal grandmother's ancestors were early Dutch settlers from the 1600s and fought in the Revolutionary War - my grandmother's aunt commissioned a book to trace their ancestry. So both of us have ancestors who go back much farther than TFG. Where would TFG be if not for that grandfather? And yet he hates immigrants?? His ancestors would have likely fought against the allies for Hitler - who he "loves..."

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