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For those disinformation purveyors claiming that "our ancestors" did not receive public aid when they first came to the United States: This is ahistorical nonsense easily debunked by a simple web search. Your ancestors weren't some super breed of human.
ssa.gov/history/pdf/hi…
ssa.gov/history/pdf/hi…
And by the way, to emigrate to the United States in previous decades was a matter of hours, not what it is now. You know how long some of my friends have been waiting for their papers to be processed? 20+ YEARS. history.com/news/immigrant…
The concept of public aid for immigrants came to the Americas with colonists socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/programs/poor-…
The real world isn't like "Little House on the Prairie," which by the way was written to indoctrinate children away from public use laws in part by a journalist whose grasp of the facts was so bad that Charlie Chaplin once sued her newyorker.com/books/page-tur…
Also, since you're here, this and any claim like it is nothing more than specious bullshit, but for some reason made-up random figures that aren't round numbers go a long way toward fooling chronic suckers
truthorfiction.com/canada-pays-ll…
truthorfiction.com/canada-pays-ll…
