Friday, July 3, 2026

The Advantage of Encouraging Foreigners Was Obvious & Admitted

Declaration of Independence, Grievance VII1:

He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither...

Fun footnote:

Secret agents were sent to America soon after the accession of George the Third to the throne of England, to spy out the condition of the colonists. A large influx of liberty-loving German emigrants was observed, and the king was advised to discourage these immigrations. Obstacles in the way of procuring lands, and otherwise, were put in the way of all emigrants, except from England, and the tendency of French Roman Catholics to settle in Maryland was also discouraged. 

The British government was jealous of the increasing power of the colonies ; and the danger of having that power controlled by democratic ideas, caused the employment of restrictive measures. The easy conditions upon which actual settlers might obtain lands on the Western frontier, after the peace of 1763, were so changed, that toward the dawning of the Revolution, the vast solitudes west of the Alleghanies were seldom penetrated by any but the hunter from the seaboard provinces. When the War for Independence broke out, immigration had almost ceased. The king conjectured wisely, for almost the entire German population in the colonies were on the side of the patriots.

The United States of America is a country of immigrants.  This fact was debated and codified into our Constitution, so shut your unpatriotic pie holes, you ignorant, racist MAGA fuckwits.


1 - The elided part does suggest that our Revolution was a land grab by greedy slavers, but we don't need to get into that here.

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