"Like there ain't enough Hungarians back home to keep him busy?" Lew was wondering.
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Come on, Lew! Even you know that's not realistic! If Archduke Ferdinand began hunting Hungarians back home in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it might cause him to be assassinated by Hungarian malcontents. But if he comes to America to hunt them, nobody is going to bat an eye because if there's one thing America has never actually given a shit about, it's immigrants! Even the Statue of Liberty had nothing to do with immigrants when it was gifted to America but about abolishing slavery. It was only later after it became associated with Emma Lazarus's poem, and because it was pretty much the first thing European immigrants saw upon arriving by ship to the United States, that it was thought of as a symbol for America's willingness to accept foreigners.
Imagine that! People hated immigrants but they hated the abolition of slavery even more so they'd rather think of the Statue of Liberty as a symbol welcoming immigrants rather than a symbol of the freedom of Black Americans.
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