When Americans recall their roots, they open up to immigration

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Which was the first generation in your family to arrive in America? Do you know why your family came to the United States?

Members of President Joe Biden’s administration – and key nominees – have answered these questions in their first days in office.

Upon his nomination as Biden’s secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, a native of Cuba, tweeted: “When I was very young, the United States provided my family and me a place of refuge.”

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Vice President Kamala Harris, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Xavier Becerra, nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, have conveyed similar messages about their immigrant roots.

Meanwhile, the Biden administration has moved quickly to relax immigration restrictions, issuing executive orders to halt or reevaluate many of former President Donald Trump’s policies.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/americans-recall-roots-open-immigration-120919744.html

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1. every person on this continent is an immigrant or descendant of immigrants nt

[Skittles]

2. I am first generation American on one side and third on the other

don't have to go back far

[Bucky]

3. I'd have to go way back to find a nonAmerican relative

The most recent arrival of my personal family tree would be my maternal grandfather's great-grandparents in the 1870s. On my dad's side we've traced back to Shenandoah Valley dirt farmers in the early 1700s.

I live in an immigrant rich community and I live along what used to be a swampy prairie before massive waves of voluntary and involuntary immigrants came through and transformed the land to build the community that sustains me.

Americans can't close our doors to immigration without spitting in the face of everything that makes this country great.