Newly confirmed Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson actually said that slaves were immigrants during a speech to department employees Monday.

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"So when I see immigrant, when I think immigrant, I think strength I think strong. I think triumph."

A new study from the Pew Research Center says that the number of African immigrants moving to America has almost doubled each decade since 1970.

The bloody origins of the Dominican Republic’s ethnic ‘cleansing’ of Haitians http://t.co/AAISZltapV — tejwo (@tejwo) June 16, 2015 In what critics describe as ethnic “cleansing,”…