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> The irony: many native Americans believe that all of your own immigrant ancestors should never be allowed to enter the US.

And your lesson from this is that Native Americans should continue to be ignored and more immigrants let in?

If you care about Native Americans (and don't just use them as a rhetorical device to argue with people on the internet) then surely, you'd support a reduction in immigration, right?

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“If you care about Native Americans, *and agree with the assertion I presented as fact that they/we are being ignored and that’s purely the fault of new immigrants, and agree with the implication I made that immigration has no value*, then surely …”. Surely.

> And your lesson from this is that Native Americans should continue to be ignored and more immigrants let in?

No, that is just the conclusion you want to make. Stop putting in my mouth the words I didn't say.

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