After listening, each year, to all of the comments about "Juneteenth Day" I, most strongly, suggest (Demand?) that "Legal Immigrant Day" as a co-equal holiday!
After all, those peoples:
1. Came to our Republic, fleeing tyranny and poverty, from all lands from China to Poland;
2. Began their lives in the USA in accordance with our democratically-enacted laws;
3. Often suffered persecution (eg The interned persons of Japanese birth/ancestry during World War 2);
4. Changed the USA into a modern AND exceptional nation by the sweat of their bodies and minds; And,
5. Appear to have made our land much more law-abiding that it was before their incoming (Perhaps, excepting one easily identifiable, part of our general population).
I must "confess" that those hard-working and law-abiding immigrants included my father and grandparents.
Oh, lest we forget, our "First Peoples" (aka "American Indians") were also immigrants into the Americas.
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