@rbreich
Unless you're a Native American if you're American you're either an immigrant yourself or descended from immigrants.

@AutisticMumTo3 @rbreich Is it not generally accepted that Native Americans descended from people who migrated from Eurasia to the Americas tens of thousands of years ago? It would seem that they fall under the category of immigrants who "simply sought better lives for themselves and their descendants." They may have been the first to come, but we're all descendents of people who moved around seeking a better life.

@MikeCerm @rbreich
If you want to be that precise everyone is descendent from immigrants or are immigrants unless they live in Africa & have pure African blood. Homo Sapiens' existence started in Africa.

@AutisticMumTo3 @rbreich That's exactly the point! The people coming here today are no different than Cubans 50 years ago, Italians a 100 years ago, or whatever other ethic group however long ago it was that they came in significant numbers, but one political party treats immigration as a existential crisis, and end to life as we know it, rather than a fundamental part of the American way of life since even before the first white settlers arrived.