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VIRAL VIDEO

Native American Slams Anti-Immigration Protest: 'You're All Illegal Immigrants!'

'We're the only legal ones here!'

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by Mary Noble

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Image: screenshot from The Blaze

A group of anti-illegal immigration protestors in Tucson, Arizona got more than they bargained for when they encountered a Native American with a baby stroller, strong opinions, and powerful vocal chords.

The altercation was captured on film and has since gone more-or-less viral via Reddit and the Blaze.

The man launched into a devastating tirade, beginning, "you're all f**king illegal! We didn't invite none of you here! Get on with your bogus arguments. We're the only legal ones here." He continues, "yeah, we should have put that sign up when you son of a b**ches came!" alluding to signage held by one of the protestors.

Reactions to the video have been predictably polarized. "Hahahahaha. Holy shit that was awesome," commented one Reddit user. Nope, not awesome at all, just a bad argument, as far as conservative commenters on the Blaze are concerned: "I was born in the USA. I AM a NATIVE AMERICAN. My ancestors are from Ireland and Sweden. The American Indians are also immigrants to this Nation. Did they get permissions to come?"

You probably recall that President Obama made a similar argument last week: "A lot of folks forget that most of us used to be them," said the president. "Unless you're a Native American, you came from someplace else."

Via the Blaze.
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    tomincali
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    not all. this guy would have totake a dna test to prove he is not an anchor from mexico trying to claim native American. here in ca they try it every year during native heritage month which has been switched mexican month. the schools do not teach anything much on our native tribes yet flood the school with stuff from and about mexico..
  • martydotcom
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    @tomincali Why bother they got the casinos and the franchise on cheap cigarettes.
    just like the white man; it's location, location, location. The Seminole's are doing just fine Rocking at the Hard Rock in So Fl lol
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    tomincali
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    @martydotcom not all the tribes are that lucky one i know of has been ripped off for oil royalties. funny they do require dna tests to prove ancestry thats why i said this guy needs one to prove he is not just some illegal alien. looks are deceiving and illegal aliens and their supporters are as well.
  • albe
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    Well It quite possibly wasn't set up ,a border entry point that is on the Bering Strait land bridge, if that's where the Amerindians originate, All Europeans originate from Africa , so I don't see why the Asians /Amerindians didn't, at least from Prof. Leaky's Lucy . Aunt Lucy and Ethel Mertz did a show on this ,riiiight.
    If you ask Canadians ,most will not know how many Kings of France ruled that place until war turned the land over to the British.(example) Borders are not a phonom
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  • Rocker
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    I'd almost bet that Loretta Lynn's song "You're Squaw is on the Warpath Tonight" doesn't rate really high up there with him either.
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    vws
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    The influx of illegals began long before any of the current residents of this land. When the Europeans began arriving the local native populations were in decline and the European view of settlement conflicted greatly with the native view of land ownership. Every generation born since the original colonist (both European and earlier Natives) has the right being called Americans!
  • jessejaymes
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    LOL I always wonder when people DEMAND that we give Israel back to Palestinians if those same people are ready to give back the USA to the Native American Indians? The man has a point.
  • Rocker
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    Another question: How many generations removed from the original configuration does one have to be until it no longer matters??
  • hwyangel
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    @marine1

    I don't believe that is the whole truth though. Have you ever wondered where the name "Indian Giver" came from? And why they were called "savages"? I'm not referring to all Indians, some were freindly. When I was young I knew a very old woman who had some very old journals from her ancestors who came to America. Joeseph was a head school master who immigrated from England. The journal talked about his journey here and how he purchased his land from the Indians. Him and others with him including family. After they built on the land the Indians would raid their small village, stealing, burning their homes and killing if anyone resisted.
  • marine1
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    @hwyangel Maybe and then again, maybe there was conditions that we aren't aware of. You know how history has a way of loosing totality of a given situation???
  • slov
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    Probally something like trust and govt can't be used in same sentence with a few choice words. Bet he wouldn't be bashful
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    NTBFW
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    "Native Americans" were not the first people here either. They took it from another group the Same way we took it from them. I had a class once that covered this. I will have to find that book and read it again. If the illegal aliens can take the the country from us, they can make their own rules.
  • jessejaymes
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    @Libertyiskey Who did they take it from? The theory is that they crossed the Berring Strait from Russia but they're not white. Who was here when they came here? Neanderthals? There is no recorded link to what is now the USA and pre human occupiers before what we call the Native American Today.
  • MongoAPillager
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    @cheesecakes Malaysia ,Indonesia ,that general area, I saw the research a whole back,some kind of genetic sampling?i,ll see if I can find the article
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  • jessejaymes
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    @stepped_in_it Hush. They have a hard time telling us apart. You're going to get both us throw out of here and I still have two joints to smoke.
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    Cheenoguy
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    They came from Asia. There is also a theory that many of them sailed here from Asia and the Pacific Islands.
    While there were tribal wars I am unaware of a group of people being here and being pushed out/aside by these Asian peoples. Maybe I am wrong. If you are aware of any please share. Otherwise filling an empty land is not the same as taking it from others.
  • VVP
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    Then you would be fairly surprised to know the ones who crossed the land bridge were not European, They were precursors to the Asian people, More akin to the native indigenous populations in Russia today such as the Samoye Nenets which are genetically closer to Mongolians and Asians than Europeans.

    You also do know the travel across the land bridge occurred literally tens of thousands of years ago. Long before "Europe" was even considered a thing. So this is essentially groups of humans that had traveled North and then Eastward out of the cradle of civilization in Mesopotamia from where humans first started to develop in Africa. The likelihood they moved from the middle east to Europe and then moved along the northern Artic Boundry 20-40k years ago is not only not logical, but has no substantiation from a genetic perspective.
  • scotta
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    @Cheenoguy I agree 100%. I was just stating what I remembered from ancient history class from 30+ years ago. Everybody is an alien according to the President.
  • scotta
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    @VVP sorry for the mistake. If I am wrong I like people to tell me the correct answer. I was remembering for ancient history class 30+ years ago.
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  • Fishbone345
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    @MongoAPillager Better brush up on your Mandarin. I personally am going to greet our Chinese occupiers, my job will hopefully be a good one then, close to the Masters.
  • marine1
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    One might wonder if we are trying to do to other under developed countries that we did here 200+ years ago. One world goverment, wonder who would want to be the big cheeze?
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    Libertyiskey
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    Indian Chief ‘Two Eagles’ was asked by a white government official,‘You have observed the white man for 90 years. You’ve seen his wars and his technological advances. You’ve seen his progress, and the damage he’s done.’
    The Chief nodded in agreement.
    The official continued,‘Considering all these events, in your opinion, where did the white man go wrong?’
    The Chief stared at the government official for over a minute and then calmly replied.‘When white man find this land, Indians running it, no taxes, no debt, plenty buffalo, plenty beaver, clean water. Women did all the work, Medicine man free. Indian man spend all day hunting and fishing; all night having sex.’
    Then the chief leaned back and smiled.
    ‘Only white man dumb enough to think he could improve system like that.’
  • mimi57
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    This president has manged to stir up trouble with every group of people...You can't
    change History, but you can detract from 'real' issues, and he's an expert at that.
  • marine1
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    Maybe it is time for some Native Americans to start speaking out about todays gaverment> Might make for interesting conversation?
  • mimi57
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    @marine1 They'd be way too confused...he confuses us, can you imagine what they
    would think? We had a psychologist who went to do mental health work with the indians...They threw him off the reservation, too funny. They have their own laws and rules and don't take kindly to someone changing them.
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    mbill395
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    this is a stupid thread ,no doubt started by an ignorant liberal fool.
    How could the settlers have been illegal immigrants? There was no country or government set up aside from the one the settlers brought with them.
    The settlers didn't come and take advantage of a welfare system ,enroll their children in Indian school at the expense of the Indian,avoid taxation,bleed the health care system,undercut Indian wages by working cheaper and without proper licensing and insurance and take from the Indian economy by sending their earnings out of the country..etc etc etc.
    I think I speak for most when I say this country champions and encourages legal immigration more than any country on earth. However it is a disrespectful slap in the face by illegal immigrants who come to take advantage of a system and have no desire or intent to fit in,gain legal citizenship and be a productive tax paying member of society who contributes equal to those who are natural citizens and contributes not only economicicaly but practices social and community responsibility as well.
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    crusader
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    That is pretty muhc what I have said for years when I hear this same poor argument. Tehy see no difference in settlers coming to a new land where they risk their lives to work hard with no government and those illegal immigrants of today.
  • Keyjo
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    Good point. There were no laws, no national boundaries back then, only tribal bounds.
    The Natives at the time basically welcomed the White man with open arms. This is pretty much the same thing that European Christians did to the Hawai'ians as well.
    White man comes to visit, decides to stay and has no regard for their hosts.
    The Indians and Hawai'ians were naive, friendly, welcoming and their kindness was rewarded with deceit and eventually, almost annihilation.
    Let's face it, us White folks are greedy, unconscionable a-holes.
  • Zazziness
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    @crusader "...settlers coming to a new land..."
    It wasn't new to the millions of people who had already been living here for thousands of years.
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    AnnieO
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    My great grandmother (maternal) was born on the Cherokee reservation. My father's family came from Ireland. My brother looks Native American but I definitely take after the Irish side. Am I only a little bit illegal?
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    RealityOne
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    The first North Americans immigrated from what is now Asia and Siberia. They crossed an ice bridge over the Bering Strait during the last ice age around 18,000 yrs ago, when many parts of the continet were covered with as much as one mile of ice (and you thought January in Buffalo was bad). The first South Americans made incredible ocean journeys from South East Asia over millenia, slowing populating Pacific Islands like Tahiti and Hawaii, eventually reaching the mainland.

    There were no humans on the continent before these people arrived. When Europeans arrived we stole their land, enslaved them, and destroyed their cultures.

    Acknowledging the fact theat we did this is necessary, but what has come about from hundreds of years of history cannot be undone. For better or for worse, we are all humans and the only place we have to live is this planet we call Earth. I think we need to come together a bit on some things because the real enemy to us is not each other.

    If you understand at how humans have migrated over the past 200,00 years you really get a basis for understanding our different cultures and pshysical features. Technically, we all come from Africa. That is where humanity took its first steps. Maybe we should all return.
  • marine1
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    @Dan_Tien I know they had their on set of rules/laws whithin their tribes but how they interpreted imigration i'm not sure. You can bet that the rules they set in place for the people landing here were repeatedly violated or ignored.
  • Dan_Tien
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    @marine1 I think that the first Native Americans didn't know the consequences of letting the strange looking foreigners set up camp in the neighborhood, sort of like the bedouin who let the camel put its nose in his tent.
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