$200,000 USDA training: ‘Pilgrims were illegal aliens’

Published February 15, 2013 5:00am ET



The department most associated with Thanksgiving–the U.S. Department of Agriculture–is training workers to refer to the Pilgrims who celebrated the first Thanksgiving as “illegal aliens.”

In a department “cultural sensitivity training” video uncovered and released by the public watchdog group Judicial Watch, a diversity trainer is shown saying: “I want you to say that America was founded by outsiders – say that – who are today’s insiders, who are very nervous about today’s outsiders. I want you to say, ‘The pilgrims were illegal aliens.’ Say, ‘The pilgrims never gave their passports to the Indians.”

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