California Governor Gavin Newsom has publicly criticized the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over a social media post promoting “remigration,” a term widely associated with far-right movements in Europe. The DHS account on X posted the single word “Remigrate,” linking to a government site encouraging voluntary self-deportation.
Newsom’s press office swiftly responded by reposting the tweet with the word “Please,” accompanied by a History Channel graphic outlining President Donald Trump’s immigrant ancestry. The image highlighted that Trump’s father’s family was German, his mother was Scottish, and none of his grandparents were born in the United States.
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Inbefore anyone…
No, Germany won’t take him back.
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Trump’s own wife, whom he met on Epstein’s plane, is an illegal immigrant. Got an undeserved visa that she didn’t qualify for.
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This is important and I’ve wondered why more people aren’t asking Donnie von Shitzinpants about his immigrant heritage publicly? Make him acknowledge his immigrant background.
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>Donald Trump’s paternal grandfather was Friedrich Trump. Friedrich Trump was born in 1869 in the village of Kallstadt, in what was then the Kingdom of Bavaria (now part of Germany). He immigrated to the United States in 1885 at the age of 16.
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Bad people tend to be complete hypocrites.
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Yeah but Melania was totally legal, she’s clearly a genius.
NPVT on
Point to Bernie Moreno.
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It’s okay, Gavin, they were never homeless or trans, you can still have them on your podcast
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Good for Newsom for pointing that out. Except for Native Americans, everyone else has immigrant family history.
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>The letter was found in a local German archive and was first published in the German newspaper Bild on Nov. 21, 2016. The Associated Press confirmed the story in a bulletin posted that same day:
>Bild newspaper printed the 1905 letter located by an historian, in which Friedrich Trump wrote Bavarian Prince Luitpold begging the “well-loved, noble, wise and just” leader not to deport him. Luitpold rejected the “most subservient request.”
Trump’s grandfather’s letter begging to to be allowed back into Bavaria sounds as though it could be written by any of the people detained and deported by Trump’s ICE:
>We were confronted all at once, as if by a lightning strike from fair skies, with the news that the High Royal State Ministry had decided that we must leave our residence in the Kingdom of Bavaria. We were paralyzed with fright; our happy family life was tarnished. My wife has been overcome by anxiety, and my lovely child has become sick.
>Why should we be deported? This is very, very hard for a family. What will our fellow citizens think if honest subjects are faced with such a decree — not to mention the great material losses it would incur. I would like to become a Bavarian citizen again.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom has publicly criticized the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over a social media post promoting “remigration,” a term widely associated with far-right movements in Europe. The DHS account on X posted the single word “Remigrate,” linking to a government site encouraging voluntary self-deportation.
Newsom’s press office swiftly responded by reposting the tweet with the word “Please,” accompanied by a History Channel graphic outlining President Donald Trump’s immigrant ancestry. The image highlighted that Trump’s father’s family was German, his mother was Scottish, and none of his grandparents were born in the United States.
Inbefore anyone…
No, Germany won’t take him back.
Trump’s own wife, whom he met on Epstein’s plane, is an illegal immigrant. Got an undeserved visa that she didn’t qualify for.
This is important and I’ve wondered why more people aren’t asking Donnie von Shitzinpants about his immigrant heritage publicly? Make him acknowledge his immigrant background.
>Donald Trump’s paternal grandfather was Friedrich Trump. Friedrich Trump was born in 1869 in the village of Kallstadt, in what was then the Kingdom of Bavaria (now part of Germany). He immigrated to the United States in 1885 at the age of 16.
Bad people tend to be complete hypocrites.
Yeah but Melania was totally legal, she’s clearly a genius.
Point to Bernie Moreno.
It’s okay, Gavin, they were never homeless or trans, you can still have them on your podcast
Good for Newsom for pointing that out. Except for Native Americans, everyone else has immigrant family history.
>The letter was found in a local German archive and was first published in the German newspaper Bild on Nov. 21, 2016. The Associated Press confirmed the story in a bulletin posted that same day:
>Bild newspaper printed the 1905 letter located by an historian, in which Friedrich Trump wrote Bavarian Prince Luitpold begging the “well-loved, noble, wise and just” leader not to deport him. Luitpold rejected the “most subservient request.”
Trump’s grandfather’s letter begging to to be allowed back into Bavaria sounds as though it could be written by any of the people detained and deported by Trump’s ICE:
>We were confronted all at once, as if by a lightning strike from fair skies, with the news that the High Royal State Ministry had decided that we must leave our residence in the Kingdom of Bavaria. We were paralyzed with fright; our happy family life was tarnished. My wife has been overcome by anxiety, and my lovely child has become sick.
>Why should we be deported? This is very, very hard for a family. What will our fellow citizens think if honest subjects are faced with such a decree — not to mention the great material losses it would incur. I would like to become a Bavarian citizen again.