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a self-describing “Wife Supremacist” and “MAGA Fertility Fanatic” She was criticized by other conservatives for claiming she had “never met” any immigrants who moved to the United States because they were seeking freedom or personal freedom, adding that immigrants only “move here for the money, man.”
While aggressive anti-immigration policies seem entirely consistent with the Donald Trump wing of the conservative movement, especially with the President Accusing Somali Americans of being “trash” Some right-wing pundits and commentators criticized this statement as being far from the truth.
In a series of tweets on Sunday, Peachy Keenan (a pseudonym for a person) biological mother of five children who said She’s inspired by Trump to have more kids – insists that immigrants only come to the United States for economic reasons.
“I have never met a single immigrant, legal or illegal, who moved to the United States because they longed to experience free speech, free speech, individual liberty or representative democracy,” domestic extremists author release. “They move here for the money, man. Even my people!”
In a follow-up tweetKeenan said, “America is not an idea,” but an “ATM for immigrants,” before describing her definition of a true American.
“It’s the ancestral home of the families who farmed it, built it, fought for it, died for it,” she said. “That’s what it means to be American. It means you’re indigenous, at least for several generations.”
However, her online tirade quickly became the target of a number of prominent conservative media figures who took issue with her sweeping claims about immigration, especially those seeking to escape totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.
“I have a group of Baha’i friends who I grew up with who fled the ayatollahs’ regimes and came to the United States in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and they would laugh at this if they weren’t too busy trying to become American citizens.” national review Writer and podcaster Jeff Blehar famous.
Charles CW Cooke, Senior Writer national review online I immigrated to the United States from the United Kingdom in 2011 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2018. Just replied Say hello to Keenan.
‘My grandfather immigrated from Sweden because he wanted to be an American,’ conservative radio host Erik Erickson reacted. “My neighbor came here from India because he wanted to be free and escape the caste system. Get out more and meet people.”
Gabriella Hoffman, Independent Women’s Forum staff member and Town Hall columnist, famous Before recounting her family’s experiences, she was “basically every socialist escapee I knew and met.” “Forty years ago next month, my parents came to the United States. They came here to enjoy the freedoms, free speech, constitutional rights and free enterprise that the Russian occupiers had taken away from them,” Huffman added.
“Tell me you don’t see a lot of immigrants, not that you don’t see a lot of immigrants.” Dan McLaughlin, NRO senior writer Replied. “My high school Spanish teacher, for example, was the most fervently pro-American I’ve ever met. He didn’t run away from Castro and dream of making a fortune teaching sullen teenagers on a Catholic school salary.”
Comment Editor John Podheretz had no qualms about his opinion of Keenan’s tweet. “Tell me you’re an idiot with more talent than this incredibly stupid tweet that can’t understand why America works the way it does and I’ll give you a cookie,” he write on X.
“Realistically, it’s free speech, free speech, personal freedom, representative democracy and money,” Conservative spokesman and podcast host Ian Haworth observed.
Keenan, for her part, tried to explain her position after a social media user Replied: “We Iranians came here for freedom, but what are you talking about?”
Keenan in response explain She’s not “saying there weren’t, I’m sure a lot of medieval immigration was driven by fleeing tyranny, but I’m saying I personally didn’t see a lot of it.”
Keenan eventually added a disclaimer on Monday morning amid a flood of criticism for her tweet from conservatives. “*Under 60,” she release.