I’m responding to the Feb. 28 letter “More compassion for immigrants needed,” in which he proclaimed that if you are not of Indigenous descent then you are an immigrant. I am 83 years old and my two pairs of grandparents came to the U.S. in the early 1900s. One came from Lithuania and the other from Ireland. They were immigrants, and I am very grateful they were. My mother and father, my late wife and I, our two sons and four grandsons were all born in the U.S. We are not immigrants!

A recent article I saw stated that the first people to set foot in what is now North America came from what is now Asia about 13,000 years ago. I guess they were immigrants, too.

Michael Lyons

South Deerfield

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