Immigrants are no longer welcome in Donald Trump’s America. Instead, the Republican presidential nominee posited that under his potential second administration, he would round up and mass-deport noncitizens based on their “serial numbers.”

Speaking with Full Measure’s Sharyl Attkisson, Trump argued that the United States—which was founded by and has historically been a nation of immigrants—shouldn’t be a “dumping ground” for newcomers.


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  • @[email protected]
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    3113 hours ago

    Term and conditions were appended in 2019

    “Give me your tired, your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge,” Immigration Director Ken Cuccinelli said Tuesday morning during an interview with NPR.

    When asked what he thinks America stands for, Cuccinelli said that the poem was referencing immigrants coming from Europe.

    “Of course that poem was referring to people coming from Europe where they had class-based societies, people were considered wretched if they weren’t in the right class”

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/13/ken-cuccinelli-statue-liberty-poem-refers-migrants-europe/2004455001/

    • @AbidanYre
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      1412 hours ago

      What an ass. It wasn’t the high class Europeans that were coming here to get a fresh start.