Opinion | My Family’s American Life Almost Wasn’t

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Opinion: The story of my family’s journey to America is the story of refugees anywhere, writes David Molton

My father’s family tried to come to America 80 years ago. They were among more than 900 passengers on the M.S. St. Louis, a German refugee ship that was turned away from North American ports. The lessons from that saga are relevant today.

My family’s journey began in 1935. My grandfather impersonated a Nazi official and removed the Jew-hating Der Sturmer newspaper from the newsstands of Fischhausen, a rural town in East Prussia. The following year my grandparents, father, aunt and uncle—known by their surname Motulsky—fled....

 

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My mom's people fled Russia and when they got here they entered legally through a port of entry and didn't sneak in.

I just read about this ships story at the Holocaust museum in DC last week.

Nice try, but there is a huge difference between refugees 80 years ago and migrants today, leaving aside most are scamming the system. Once it became known that everything was 'free' in America, which LBJ started in 1965, immigration became a scam and a fraud.

Legal immigrants

the first question should be ' what they are trying to flee from' the second 'are they refugees or are they economic migrants' and the third 'do they want to integrate to the natives or do they want natives to integrate to them'

Seems like the only difference between your family and families now is that one assimilated.

Kneel to the Indigenous Peoples first.

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