Each time I hear US politicians claiming the UK is being 'swamped' by a flood of immigrants, I am wryly amused that they have no idea about (or refuse think about) how the USA was founded.... by a swamping of immigrants who destroyed the native (indigenous) population - immigrants driven by religious persecution & often seeking to better their family's economic circumstances.
Still why would US politicians be concerned with their country's own history?
@ChrisMayLA6 The English pilgrims on the Mayflower already had religious freedom as they had been living in Leiden in Holland where they could do what they liked.
However, they disliked the permissiveness of Dutch society especially around children. The Pilgrims thought that children should be punished. They were also poor so left Leiden essentially as economic migrants.
Yes, they wanted religious freedom but that was not the main driver as they had that already. It was economics.....
Emeritus Prof. Christopher May
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