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Re:Green Card Seekers Must Leave U.S. to Apply, Trump Admini... by remarkEon on Sunday May 24, 2026 @10:39AM (#48257631)
Cato is doing their usual thing here where they lie by omission.

>These foreigners, if not properly disposed of, will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its directions, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass.[1]

-Thomas Jefferson

The Founders had a conception of immigration that is completely at odds with the free for all that exists today, and Cato is partially responsible for people incorrectly thinking that the US was “literally built on the idea of immigration”.

[1] https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/gdc/lhbcb/0490...

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Re:Green Card Seekers Must Leave U.S. to Apply, Trump Admini... by adamredwoods on Sunday May 24, 2026 @12:56PM (#48258942)
I can't find that in your reference. Additionally, signed by Jefferson into law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization_Act_of_1802
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Re:Green Card Seekers Must Leave U.S. to Apply, Trump Admini... by remarkEon on Sunday May 24, 2026 @02:00PM (#48259554)
Right, a law that made it easier for white people from Europe to become citizens.
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Re:Green Card Seekers Must Leave U.S. to Apply, Trump Admini... by madaxe_again on Monday May 25, 2026 @02:49PM (#48270261)
Europeans who arrived, seized land, imported enslaved people, broke treaties, then later decided that later arrivals were the real problem? Those Europeans?
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Re:Green Card Seekers Must Leave U.S. to Apply, Trump Admini... by remarkEon on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @12:57AM (#48289846)
Would you prefer the United States didn’t exist or something? What is even the point of this comment. “Bad things happened in history, there was violence and war and conquering, woe is me” this is what you sound like. Profound, truly.
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