Here is some food for thought, were that possible for the Donald Trumps (and Peter Duttons) of this world.
Who is the most famous American illegal immigrant?
There are many candidates, but have a look in the wallet, bleaders in the U.S.A. Got a ten spot? Look at Alexander Hamilton. He is one of the finalists.
First, why is he on the ten, and then how did he get there.
He is on the ten because he created the United States currency. He devised the reserve bank system, coinage, paper money and a lot more. A founder indeed. (He was also an artillery officer in the Revolutionary War, more military service that Trump has seen.)
Until he was murdered, it was widely supposed Hamilton would succeed George Washington as leader of the Federalist Party. It was Hamilton who first bruited the Washington Monument.
Hamilton was also an undocumented, illegal immigrant born out of wedlock to a French mother on a Danish island in the Caribbean Sea who entered America at age eighteen. What a trifecta. Moreover his maternal language was French. He learned English as a teenager at a Jewish school and from the Dutch businessman for whom he worked.
What would Trump or his local imitator Dutton make of that?
A voodoo frog on a bicycle and a bastard to boot. Literal in the case of Hamilton and figurative in the other cases.
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