Federal officials consider immigrants “drug traffickers” even in states where cannabis has been legalized.
        • Triple_B@lemmy.zipEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          36, taught that in Florida of all places. My history teachers must have been pretty good. Uh, for Florida, anyways.

    • Kepabar@startrek.website
      23·
      1 year ago

      I’m around your same age and have always been told immigrants generally good.

      That’s not a generational view you have there. I’m willing to bet that immigrant is a synonym for ‘not white’ by whoever in your past has said this.

      • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
        51·
        1 year ago

        The people in my past who have said this have been the exact same politicians who are saying it now. This has been a major republican talking point all my life. Nothing has changed among them.

        And then yes I’ve heard immigration bad from people as well of course.

    • Odigo2020@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      I’m 37 and was generally raised with the melting pot mentality, but I grew up in Washington state. Out of curiosity, not judgment, did you grow up in a Red state?

    • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
      6·
      1 year ago

      I am very close to your age and I was taught that. That’s literally the inscription on the Statue of Liberty. Sounds like someone tried to brainwash you.

      The inscription on the Statue of Liberty is the famous poem “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus. Written in 1883, it was mounted on a bronze plaque inside the statue’s pedestal in 1903. The most famous lines from the poem are:

      “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”