Moving Beyond Illegal Immigration: Settlers, Latinxs And Imagined Illegality (illegal aliens, activist, biased)

[Packard fan]

Immigration reform activists often laud the U.S. as a “nation of immigrants,” but before it was that, it was, and still is, a nation of settlers. There is a direct connection between the colonization of the U.S., the development of its imagined community, and the criminalization of Latinxs as the embodiment of “illegality.”

The U.S., as a settler colony, developed out of European settlements in North America, enacting genocide on indigenous communities, appropriating land as property, forcefully incorporating enslaved African people into its settlement project, and declaring the land the rightful home to the European settler population.

Moving Beyond Illegal Immigration: Settlers, Latinxs And Imagined Illegality

The SAME can be said about Canada and ALL of LatAm. Still NO reason to allow illegal aliens to live here.

[Purehess]

To the Victor go the spoils. People never understand the difference between building a nation vs. maintaining a nation.

[marino760]

Originally Posted by Packard fan

Immigration reform activists often laud the U.S. as a “nation of immigrants,” but before it was that, it was, and still is, a nation of settlers. There is a direct connection between the colonization of the U.S., the development of its imagined community, and the criminalization of Latinxs as the embodiment of “illegality.”

The U.S., as a settler colony, developed out of European settlements in North America, enacting genocide on indigenous communities, appropriating land as property, forcefully incorporating enslaved African people into its settlement project, and declaring the land the rightful home to the European settler population.

Moving Beyond Illegal Immigration: Settlers, Latinxs And Imagined Illegality

The SAME can be said about Canada and ALL of LatAm. Still NO reason to allow illegal aliens to live here.

History is history. There are countless examples of this same thing all over the world including Europe with the invasion of the Romans into what they called Britania, Gaul, Hispaniola to name a few. Before them were the Persians. It's endless, so what's the point? People invaded, colonized, enslaved those areas where the inhabitants are weaker. What else is new? Also, anything published by the Huff Post is always a one sided biased piece of trash. That's why I don't read it or take anything they say seriously.