Excuse me, the number of people who are immigrants in this country is 100%

[disalitervisum]

Not really 20%, contrary to what Miller and Bannon say. Their biggest lie of all.

[bdamomma]

1. exactly we ARE

a nation of immigrants. Keep on fueling that stupid base they are so wrong with this shit

[dsc]

2. um you are forgetting the Native Americans

despite our best efforts a few did survive.

[Shrike47]

4. They came here too, just earlier. A lot earlier.

[unblock]

8. well by that logic, every country outside of africa is a nation of immigrants.

try selling that to france. or japan. or greece. or...

[Xipe Totec]

10. Truth hurts. nt

[Ms. Toad]

5. Thank you. I was about to note that. n/t

[JennyMominFL]

3. People came here in chains

Slaves were not immigrants

[unblock]

9. good point! interesting question about the words migration/immigration/emigration

while they are certainly voluntary in most cases, i don't know if these words specifically exclude involuntary changes in country of residence.

sociologists say that populations change through 4 means: birth, death, immigration, and emigration. i think it's just meant to refer someone being added to one country while subtracted from another. nothing implied about how or why that happened.

but that may be too much of a jargon term usage. common usage certainly at least suggests voluntary.

[unblock]

6. that feels like a slight against american indians

i suppose if you go way, way back far enough, they also came here from asia via what's now the aleutian islands, i think, but that's kinda stretching a point.

[ladym55]

7. Miller's ancestors arrived in 1903

Wonder how well THEY spoke English. They were escaping pogroms in Eastern Europe.

Stephen Miller is just despicable. There are no other words.

[fierywoman]

11. Except for Native Americans and our history of slavery, we are

100 percent immigrants.

[lunasun]

17. Much better thank you!

[Hoyt]

12. True. But America Firsters on both sides are fine with shutting the doors.

[Yupster]

13. Can you be an immigrant to a country

before there was a country to immigrate to?

Also, Texans became Americans when Texas joined the Union. At that point they became immigrants?

Hawaiians too? They became immigrants in 1959?

As Inino Montoya said, I don't think you're using that word correctly.

[fishwax]

14. I'm a descendant of (among others) immigrants, but I'm not an immigrant myself

Immigrants face a number of challenges and struggles (legal, psychological, etc.) which I'm not subject to.

[egduj]

15. Yeah, yeah, and we're all descendants of Adam.

I get it.

[Iggo]

16. I kinda get what you're saying.

But I's born here.