The context of this political cartoon is the recent push by many governors to prevent refugees from Syria to settle in their states. The audience of this cartoon are the people who oppose letting refugees into the country. The cartoon is meant to remind them that the Europeans who first came to America from Europe were refugees from religious persecution in Europe, and that without the help of the native Americans who already lived in America, they would probably have perished. In order to understand the cartoon, the audience needs to have knowledge about how America came to be settled by Europeans.
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