Maybe this has been posted yesterday, but just in case here it is…too rich to be missed.

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Today in irony: Tomi Lahren’s ancestor was prosecuted for forging immigration papers

It’s almost as if cruelty and willful ignorance were related or something. In a story published on left-leaning political site Wonkette, genealogist Jennifer Mendelsohn revealed yesterday that Tomi “locks her car doors when passing a Taco Bell” Lahren is descended from one of those criminal immigrants she wants deported. By that, we mean that one of her ancestors was prosecuted for illegally forging his naturalization paperwork. Puts this tweet in a different light, doesn’t it?:

Tomi Lahren ✔ @TomiLahren
We are indeed a nation of immigrants. We are also a nation of laws. Respect our laws and we welcome you. If not, bye. #DACA
1:54 AM - Sep 6, 2017
1,378 1,378 Replies 4,499 4,499 Retweets 15,856 15,856 likes

Now, let’s back up for a moment: The concept of “illegal” immigration didn’t exist in the U.S. until the late 19th century, when the blatantly racist Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 became the first federal law to regulate newcomers to the U.S. The same racial bias extended into the 1924 Immigration Act, which established quotas for immigration from different parts of the world—quotas that heavily favored western Europe. (Jeff Sessions is a big fan,saying the act “was good for America” in a 2015 interview with none other than Steve Bannon.)

Somewhere in between, Tomi Lahren’s great-great-grandfather Constantin Dietrich came to the U.S. from the city of Odessa, then part of South Russia. Dietrich’s obituary says he came to the U.S. in 1905, and he initially applied to become a naturalized American citizen in 1909. However, once he did the paperwork conservatives are always screaming about, he changed the date of his original declaration from 1909 to 1911, because he waited too long to complete the process, and needed to fudge the numbers in order to disguise the period where he was—wait for it—undocumented. He got caught, though, and went on trial for forgery in Bismarck, North Dakota in 1917. He was ultimately acquitted.

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