Ben Carson appears to refer to slaves as ‘immigrants’ in opening address to staff
’ ’ ”This is what America is about, a land of dreams and opportunity,” ’ ’ ”There were immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder, for less,” he continued.
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