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♪ Now get it straight, we didn't risk ♪
♪ our lives to assimilate ♪
♪ We came to work and fill and breakfast lunch ♪
♪ and dinner plates I'm in your state, ♪
♪ but my own culture I won't throw away ♪
♪ Your free trade made me a banana boat stowaway ♪
♪ "Wave our flag and embrace," say arrogant whites ♪
♪ I won't abandon culture for no stars and stripes! ♪
♪ Go back to my country? ♪
♪ Well now you being ignorant United States was founded ♪
♪ by some European immigrants ♪
♪ Who committed genocide when they came from elsewhere ♪
♪ We just asked for jobs ♪
♪ driver's licenses and healthcare ♪
♪ You got the wealth here ♪
♪ from exploiting the earth ♪
♪ Tell me why you give a... about my country ♪
♪ of birth! Ah still a Rapso rhymin', coconut tree ♪
♪ climbin' Carnival limin', found of Black woman waist ♪
♪ whinin', Curry channa eating, sour sop sipping, ♪
♪ Stag and rum drinkin', Orisha worshipping... ♪
♪ IMMIGRANT! ♪
♪ Exploitation make life in we nation hard ♪
♪ We trade that for an alien registration cyard ♪
♪ Deport me if hatta, but ah maintainin' de innocence ♪
♪ De only thing ah guilty of is bein' an immigrant ♪
♪ es el viajero del sendero del incierto el incendiario ♪
♪ legendario en el concierto el sueño fue la condicion ♪
♪ que ahora esta expuesta en cada urgencia la voz en este ♪
♪ estado de emergencia sin arraigo es mi contrato aqui ♪
♪ esta hablando el desacato este es el: plato indigesto ♪
♪ pa'l estatus mandatario es el adorno mas absurdo pa' ♪
♪ sus males necesario sigue el horario y la tarjeta pa la ♪
♪ hacienda la etiqueta con la marca dice en venta con un ♪
♪ vaso sin romance dice inventa regresa para el sur ♪
♪ porque este norte no es oferta ya vente para el ♪
♪ norte porque el sur ya se revienta ya vente para el ♪
♪ norte porque el sur ya se revienta ♪
♪ Immigrant: ♪
♪ You don't honor me, on stolen land you celebrate autonomy ♪
♪ Our jobs the hardest and most dangerous ♪
♪ in this economy ♪
♪ When I say immigrant that includes me as well ♪
♪ Resident alien, who me be taking ESL ♪
♪ By the time I get to Arizona, I'll be Public Enemy ♪
♪ Legislation threatening like Senate Bill 1070 ♪
♪ Our nation's developing, or I'm from a foreign isle ♪
♪ So I'm subject to the consequence of racial profile ♪
♪ You known for land theft and human slaughtering ♪
♪ You put First Nations on a trail ♪
♪ that had their eyes watering ♪
♪ La migra McCain and any right wing conservative ♪
♪ Has no right to tell me on which land I deserve to live ♪
♪ I'm a dual citizen. ♪
♪ Why am I concerned with this? ♪
♪ Cuz I was here first, the melanin superlative ♪
♪ But they want deport me, to my homeland ship me ♪
♪ Cuz they got a beef with aliens ♪
♪ worse than Ellen Ripley! ♪
♪ Immigrant: ♪
♪ Immigrant... ♪