Some of us have a pretty good idea...
Posted on 01/12/2018 10:47:51 AM PST by mikelets456
Here's what Donald Trump has to say about low-wage immigrants on his website: "The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high… We need to control the admission of new low-earning workers."
00:00 00:00 What Trump doesn't say, however, is that his own mother would once have fit into that category. When Mary Anne Macleod, who later gave birth to The Donald, first emigrated to the U.S. from Scotland at age 18, she came with only $50 in her possession and a job as a domestic servant.
The new details about Macleod's journey to the U.S. were brought to light by the Scottish newspaper The National this weekend, and are confirmed by public records from Ellis Island. They suggest that the story Trump has told about his mother in the past—that she came over to the U.S. on vacation and fell in love with Fred Trump, Donald's real-estate magnate father—isn't quite true.
(Excerpt) Read more at splinternews.com ...
Yeah, .... ?? So, No Welfare, Snap cards, free medical, free tuition, clothing, lodging, etc..? OH - WAIT.....that’s right she had a JOB! She Worked and I’ll bet she even paid taxes. Wow!
Trump’s mother, with or without money, came from a civilized culture. To some extent, she and her children were going to carry that culture into her new country.
For this reason, her immigration was infinitely preferable to the arrival of someone, even with a million dollars in a suitcase, from the Muslim world.
And never applied for public assistance, I'll bet!
OH MY GOSH!!! - He LIED!!!!!
IMPEACH!, I say... IMPEACH!!!
During that period we only let in about 250,000 a year so that we could assimilate them.
Today we allow over a million in a year legally and we get another million plus illegally.
Our country is being stolen from us.
I have studied my grandparents Ellis Island records and they have the same type of information as the records of Trump’s mother. In addition to passing a physical exam, the U.S. immigration officials knew who was coming in, how many were coming in, where in the USA they were going to, and who was responsible for taking care of them if they could not hack it (their relatives took care of them if they did not earn a living), and their home towns and villages. IF necessary the immigration officials knew where and how to deport them.
Thanks for posting that. First thing that came to my mind when I read the part about 50 bucks. She lost 40% of her net worth when Roosevelt devalued the dollar-gold peg over a one year period.
Some of us have a pretty good idea...
She came here legally. Nuff said.
How much was her welfare check?
Not really.
I think his original birth certificate says “father unknown” and the story of the Kenyan is made up.
But he was the one who claimed a foreign nationals as his father and that makes him not a natural born citizen and not eligible to be President.
You mean his real father? The communist who got his mother pregnant just before she was to enter college?
My great great great great grandmother was Cherokee. Careful!
**On a broader level, seeing Macleod’s journey from a girl in an impoverished Scottish town to the matriarch of a successful New York real estate family is inspiring. Trump is going back to Scotland next month for the opening of a new resort. So while he’s there, maybe he should think about his mom—and take another look at her immigration records—before he keeps badmouthing immigrants.**
Baloney article. In 1930 immigrants had to work to survive and they did! No ‘entitlements’. Trump’s mother possessed all the attributes which made this country (and her son) great!!!
So MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!!!
She worked, she had a job, she supported herself, there was little or no welfare, the country was actually in need of workers and there were some criteria for admission. If you were not on a solid pathway to citizenship to become a bonafide member of the nation you could not stay.
Much different time. MUCH different conditions.
Trying to use this as justification for the crap that is going on now is bullspit.
And very very well known information.
Big deal. What is their point?
I had not seen those two photos posted like that.
There’s more than a little resemblance.
‘She lost 40% of her net worth when Roosevelt devalued the dollar-gold peg over a one year period.’
Interesting—thanks for the historical context. Roosevelt was a financial wrecking ball:
‘FDR didn’t know what to do about the Great Depression he inherited from Herbert Hoover, so he tried everything. He hiked taxes, spent more money, established monopolies, enforced cartels, filed antitrust lawsuits, promoted compulsory unionism, multiplied business regulations, denounced investors, and started welfare programs, public works projects, a big entitlement, on and on.
One theme runs through such misguided policies: the failure to focus single-mindedly on the recovery of the private sector that pays all the bills, including tax bills. FDR was very much a creature of the “progressive” era, when many intellectuals embraced the view that experts could make a better world if only they had enough power.’
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2009/05/jim-powell/fdrs-biggest-mistake-during-thedepression/
I was just starting to look this up. $50 back then was a ton.
Liberals are scratching. The lady was legal and followed the rules.
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