The Misadventures Of That One Chunky Dude @rivera59 - Tumblr Blog

so real

See that picture above? That’s a close up of my great grandmother’s immigration papers when she first came to the US back in the early 20th century. But my great grandma’s information isn’t the important part here. The important part is that line in the middle there about how they arrived in the country.

And how ‘stowaway’ is a legitimate, valid option to select.

So yeah. They absolutely just showed up, and that part of immigration history needs to be talked about a lot more.

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REMINDER THAT TRAVEL VISAS AS WE KNOW THEM TODAY WERE INVENTED IN THE 1930S TO KEEP JEWISH REFUGEES OUT OF COUNTRIES THAT DID NOT WANT AN ‘INFLUX’ OF THEM, THEREBY FACILITATING THEIR GENOCIDE :)))))

read What is A Refugee for more history. Educate yourselves.

systlin

Yup. Mom’s side of the family came in this way. Just...wrote their names down and that was that.

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hyunjining

the way that social media just runs with misinformation is so terrifying actually like. someone will tweet something and no one will look up whether it’s true or not. and then suddenly it’s all over every website. i’m scared