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Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by taken_username on Friday July 24, 2020 @12:07PM (#23941143)
What is sad about this comment is how the author define and American. USA is a country that is built by immigrant (I am not talking about the CEO of big tech companies, I am talking about your grand-grand parents who came here a few generations ago)

How do you justify the people who let you ancestors to immigrate there being Americans whose work... (replace the rest with your own comment!)

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Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by dang on Friday July 24, 2020 @02:03PM (#23942614)
Please don't feed the trolls. This is in the site guidelines, albeit with softer language: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
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Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by DanBC on Friday July 24, 2020 @12:20PM (#23941305)
> America was not made great immigrants it was made great by British

I find it difficult to understand how we can describe immigrant colonisers as "not immigrants".

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Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by site-packages1 on Friday July 24, 2020 @12:41PM (#23941577)
> ...British (plus some European) settlers that spoke English and followed Protestant Christian values.

Sounds like white, English-speaking, Christian == colonizer, and anyone else would be immigrants. :/

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Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by damnyou on Friday July 24, 2020 @12:56PM (#23941771)
Yeah. it's white Christian nationalism. Manifest destiny and all that.
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Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by non-entity on Friday July 24, 2020 @12:18PM (#23941268)
50% isnt even a majority, assuming this is a real statistic and not something pulled out of your ass.
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Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by damnyou on Friday July 24, 2020 @12:25PM (#23941363)
50% of the US population descended from Native Americans? Wow.
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