{"id":7147,"date":"2020-01-22T16:55:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T23:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7147"},"modified":"2020-01-22T16:56:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T23:56:54","slug":"immigration-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7147","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With Trump&#8217;s impeachment trial getting started, the Republicans are still trying to get some distraction action going. News of a yet <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"another caravan has reached the headlines (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/01\/20\/797963823\/migrant-caravan-crosses-river-into-mexico-in-standoff-with-security-forces\" target=\"_blank\">another migrant caravan has reached the headlines<\/a> in the last week with people crying hysterically that the immigrants are coming to get us. Trump certainly knows his audience; nothing gets the right wing, authoritarian screaming mimis riled up more than immigrants &#8216;coming to take our jobs&#8217;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve had this photo-toon in our graphics bin for a little while, but with the Trump flak generator spewing forth drivel and spam on an hourly basis, it kind of got lost in the shuffle of the impeachment drama. But the very first Americans, like Geronimo, also had an immigration problem with people who stole their land, murdered their citizens and swindled them for fun and profit.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?s=immigrant\" target=\"_blank\">we&#8217;ve mentioned many times before<\/a>, the fact is we&#8217;re all immigrants to North America. The Native Americans have been here the longest, but even they migrated tens of thousands of years ago. Truly, if any people have the right to protest about immigrants taking their land, it&#8217;s the Native Americans.  Since the history books of our childhood don&#8217;t really explain this narrative properly, we recommend the book <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/37kGmpQ\" target=\"_blank\">Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"499\" height=\"581\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/geronimoimmigrationproblems.jpg\" alt=\"Geronimo sarcastically asks modern day Americans about their immigration problems.\" class=\"wp-image-7146\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/geronimoimmigrationproblems.jpg 499w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/geronimoimmigrationproblems-258x300.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 85vw, 499px\" \/><figcaption>Historical Reminder: The very first Americans had a serious immigration problem with foreigners who invaded their land, killed off citizens and swindled them for fun and profit.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Trump&#8217;s impeachment trial getting started, the Republicans are still trying to get some distraction action going. News of a yet another migrant caravan has reached the headlines in the last week with people crying hysterically that the immigrants are coming to get us. Trump certainly knows his audience; nothing gets the right wing, authoritarian &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7147\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Immigration Irony&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,8,68,85,963,3,198],"tags":[1575,916,1824,1832,22,2067,9,1390,1674,762,574,592,1680,918,1831,478,98,296,19,661],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7147"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7154,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147\/revisions\/7154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}