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Adam Arenson

Summer is the Season to Fix Immigration

by Adam Arenson

Summer is the season for declaring Americans -- whether on July 4, 1776, as the nation came into being, or in July 1863, as the fight to end slavery intensified at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, or in July 1870, when the limited view of a whites-only America was first removed from the naturalization standards.

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Adam Arenson

Summer is the Season to Fix Immigration

by Adam Arenson