Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - Asylum
With the 2020 election underway, John Oliver explains how the Trump administration has handled asylum seekers over the past four years, why it matters, and what we can do about it.
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so this is a sensitive subject for me. It infuriates me how my fellow Americans could forget their history. We are All immigrants!
Hi there 
My maternal grandparents both emigrated from Poland in 1912 when they were in their teens. They eventually met and married here and had 2 daughters, one of whom was my mother. They both came through Ellis Island and my mother put their names on the wall. They didn't have an easy time, my grandfather was made a citizen and sent to France to fight for this country in WWI. My grandmother started with a job in a factory, she told me it was "folding sweatshirts for 10-cents-an-hour." She was 15 when she arrived. My mother always said that my family "arrived on the last boat," but they eventually started and ran a small local grocery and both daughters graduated from college. My mother said her Dad cried when she was awarded a full scholarship. 
And my paternal great grandparents arrived from Ireland - my great grandmother as a small child. They had a farm and raised a large family, my grandfather was the eldest boy. He and his brother joined the U.S Army together and served in WWI at the front. My grandfather was in the Cavalry, delivered ammunition to the front by horseback while his brother served in battle at the front (France) and was awarded the silver star. I attended a special ceremony for him summer-before-last, two separate congressional representatives presented his 4 (out of 5) surviving children with flags that had flown over the Capitol.
That's the thing, we all come from immigrants, and they all have a story - and they are what actually makes America great. 
has a lot to do with this since he is such a hateful white supremist...
