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Consultant Jamie Raskin (D-MD) defined to Consultant Clay Higgins (R-LA) that the Founders have been America's unique unlawful immigrants.
Rep. Higgins defended considered one of his colleagues by saying that the Founders by no means anticipated a lot unlawful immigration, Rep. Raskin, a constitutional scholar, stated, “There have been no immigration legal guidelines when the Structure was adopted. The truth is, The one illegals within the nation, at the least based on the native inhabitants, have been the individuals who wrote the Structure. There was no federal regulation in any respect.”
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Raskin: There have been no immigration legal guidelines when the Structure was adopted. The truth is, the one illegals within the nation, at the least based on the native inhabitants, have been the individuals who wrote the structure. pic.twitter.com/nsylktzn4a
– Acyn (@Acyn) 10 April 2024
For the native inhabitants that was already in the USA, the unique unlawful immigrants have been the primary settlers, who turned colonists, who turned revolutionaries who fought for independence and later wrote the Structure which is the inspiration of the present system of governance.
Republicans routinely refuse to acknowledge the true historical past of the nation's founding. Their model of occasions entails white folks writing the Structure and that nothing that occurred needs to be mentioned.
Consultant Raskin was proper. The USA is a rustic of immigrants, and the unique unlawful immigrants who got here to those shores are those whose descendants might have written the Structure.
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