1. Dreamers are illegals. Illegals also = undocumented.
Their parents came here undocumented = illegal. And brought them here as well -- undocumented/illegal. Theiir parents knew what they were doing and that they were illegal. Therefore, their children as illegal/undocumented.
In the last few years the term “DREAMer” has been used to describe young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children, who have lived and gone to school here, and who in many cases identify as American.
2. It's important to me -- and the Black Native community. So,I don't give AF what you, republicans, democrats, conservatives - white, black or other -- think or says. I will continue to say my peace and do my part.
3. No - we are not all Immigrants. Share this with your family and friends.
However, we really need to stop using it as a rebuttal to anti-immigrant sentiment, because it erases the particular histories of two groups of Americans who did not immigrate here: African-Americans descending from slavery and Native Americans.
Conceptualizing all Americans as immigrants or descended from immigrants overlooks the experience of African-Americans, whose origin story in America stems from the transatlantic slave trade. The general “coming to America for a better life” narrative does not apply to them, since their relocation was involuntary, to put it mildly. The phrase also dismisses the history, experiences, and to a certain extent, the existence of Native American citizens living today. By definition, they are not immigrants.