SOURCE: The Hill
3-6-17
tags: slavery, immigration, Ben Carson
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3-6-17
Carson refers to slaves as 'immigrants' in talk to HUD employees
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Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson referred to slaves as "immigrants" dreaming of a better life in a talk with department employees, according to Monday reports.
“That’s what America is about. A land of dreams and opportunity,” Carson said. “There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less.”
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