Immigration & The Declaration of Independence

Today we celebrate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Some of the words are familiar to us all — “We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal.” (Thanks to Lin Manuel Miranda, I’ll forever sing those words.)

But you may not be familiar with that portion of the declaration charging the King of Great Britain with “a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.” Check out this one:

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

-KitJ