re: #97 Fozzie Bear

My grandfather fled the troubles in Ireland. My father’s parents fled the Holocaust in Europe. My wife’s grandparents fled poverty in the Americas. Neither of us would be here if it weren’t for the compassion of a nation that saw the abandoned and huddled masses of the world as the next generation of people equally deserving of basic human rights and liberties as anyone.

We are all immigrants here. How quickly we forget. It is all I can do to not flip the fuck out on this topic.

Ditto. My great-grands arrived at a time when the Irish and the Jews were admitted as workforce, but largely believed to be unassimilable. There were voices aplenty who said they would never be real Americans, and would gladly have denied them the rights of citizenship.

Fuck that.