Thread by @Philsbodydouble

And then she went on later in the day to win gold on the 5,000 metres. The first Olympic gold in athletics for the Netherlands since Ellen van Langen in 1992. She came to the Netherlands as a 15 year old child from Ethiopia, and this is how she repays her new country
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https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1422187982371573763

This is the interview of Liemarvin Bonevacia. In Dutch, but you don't need to understand Dutch to know what he means, just look at the body language. Ik love Nederland. I love the Netherlands.

geenstijl.nl/5160401/video-…

Born in Curacao, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Carribean, he now runs for the Netherlands at the Olympics. And the first Dutchman to reach the Olympic final in the 400m.

It is so easy to like immigrants when they are winning for your country.

But these people are not different from 100s of Syrian refugees who helped clean up the mess after the floods in Germany. Or the immigrants working in the NHS. Or driving your trucks. Or picking your fruit. Immigration is not a bad thing. Indeed, thanks to many immigrants

persecuted in the rest of Europe, the Netherlands had a Golden Age in the 17th century. The US is a country of immigrants. It is time those who abuse the RNLI are told in a very firm way, that asylum seekers are not risking their lives to come here for the easy life.

They come here to make a living and contribute to society.