Immigrants and Politics Blog

[KR - Here is a great op-ed in the New York Times today about illegal immigration as the foundational basis of westward expansion in the U.S.  This begs the question of what makes King George's claims legitimate, apart from a "might makes right" doctrine, but an interesting read nonetheless.]
December 27, 2006
Our Founding Illegals
By WILLIAM HOGELAND
EVERY nation is a nation of immigrants. Go back far enough and you’ll find us all, millions of potential lives, tucked in the DNA of our African mother, Lucy. But the immigrant experience in the United States is justly celebrated, and perhaps no aspect of that experience is more quintessentially American than our long heritage of illegal immigration.

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