Carson has long history of referring to slaves as immigrants

His words to HUD employees on Monday were nearly identical to those he has used over the past two decades.

In 2000:

“Hundreds of years before that, other immigrants came here in the bottom of slave ships,” he quoted himself as saying. “They worked even harder for longer hours for even less. They too had a dream. That one day their great-grandchildren could pursue the dream of freedom and happiness in this land.”

In his 2012 book “America the Beautiful,” he made the same point: “Long before the Statue of Liberty landed in America, however, other immigrants came here in the bottom of slave ships who worked even harder for no wages, but they too had a dream that one day their great-grandsons and great-granddaughters might pursue freedom and prosperity in this land.”

This was all known before Murkowski and Sullivan voted to confirm Ben Carson to lead HUD.

And after Carson refused to say he wouldn't steer HUD money to Trump.