Oooh thanks for the rec. I’ll check it out!

Lincoln was not only against immigration restrictions, he asked for and Congress approved a policy of *subsidizing* immigration in the form of providing financial assistance for the costs of getting here.

Lincoln himself had a fair amount to say about immigration, and he was both unabashedly for it and scathing in his denunciations of nativists as, more or less, idiots.

When all of this is over we are going to have to collect all of the gold in the world and launch it until the sun

Same with the letters X, Q, and the word Trump

The Guinan minifig with her hat!

And just to be 100% clear it is explicitly forbidden in Article 23(d) of the 1907 Hague Convention IV, itself incorporated into domestic law via 18 USC 2441(c)(2). It is a directly enumerated war crime, and giving or acting on that order is prosecutable domestically.

Also very specifically the offense memorialized in "remember the Alamo"

Worse, it happened at sea. The traditional of aiding mariners in distress stretches back to at least the age of exploration.

Hell, Nazi U-boat crews provided food and water to the survivors of ships they just sank, AND THEY WERE NAZIs!

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" wasn't "havoc" in just the modern sense of chaos, it was a particular order that was understood as heinous even in Shakespeare's day, authorization after battle was over to slaughter and pillage, both debilitated enemies and noncombatants, without restraint.

Where did you get this amazing mug???