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America was founded on the promise of freedom and liberty. Rebels who escaped persecution for noncompliance were first to arrive. Religious refugees came next. Today, with our false illusions of protecting "Americans" from immigrants, we contradict in our foreign policy exactly what we benefited from when we 'came over'.
I was raised by holocaust refugees. My parents got their citizenship because they labored in sweatshops and did everything they could to make a penny. Once they proved their contribution to the economy, they earned their civil liberties.
America should be a place where anyone can visit and try their hand at employment. We shouldn't restrict stateless people on the premise that they won't have a place to be deported to. If you ask any refugee today if they would rather be uneducated and tormented in their home country, or held in a prison/cage in the US, they would still say they prefer a reasonable chance to test their dreams and values.
I was raised believing I had no value, and that whatever I contributed to the success of the community was their way to earn brownie points with god. As an autistic person caught in a post-holocaustic stress response, emotional parenting was nonexistent. I was born for the purpose of revenging Hi*ler, and not because I was desired as an individual. I was an asset that was collected.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He wanted nothing more than the experience of the American dream for his brethren.
When my family raised us with stories of the holocaust, starvation, beatings, and slave labor, I learned that sometimes, mere survival is a gift. Today, I share my "God Bless America" video, which has earned 1/2-million views, and gives me a few pennies in royalties. My dreams are coming true.