For 283 years, America was literally a sanctuary for debtors, criminals, poor people and theocratic groups.

[Deep State Witch]

1. Legal vs Illegal Immigration

People claim that "my great-grandparents did it the legal way." Bullshit. You packed your shit, you booked passage on a ship bound for America, got off at Ellis Island, and got checked for any signs of diseases. Once passed, you went over to New York and made your way from there. Or your ancestors were already here, but the borders moved. It was only after the Chinese got the idea that THEY could come to America too that we decided that we were going to limit who came here.

America has a notorious history of discrimination against ethnic groups. The Germans, Irish, Italians, Eastern Europeans, Chinese, Japanese, and Jews were all kept out at some point. We weren't the "great melting pot" until after the Civil War, when we had lost enough men that we let THOSE people in to help recover from the war.