Trump is stuck on immigration -- but he doesn't understand the first thing about it
But here's the twist. America always gets the best and the finest -- the risk takers, the hard workers, the dreamers, the optimists. We get the brave and the sturdy. The weak, the timid, and the dependent will often stay behind.
This was true with the English, Irish, Italians and Jews. It's true with the Mexicans, Salvadorans, Guatemalans and Hondurans.
It's the American story. The only difference is skin color. Unfortunately, that's all some people see.
Life is funny. If Trump and his elitism were running the U.S. immigration system in 1885 when his grandfather emigrated from Germany in what historians suggest was an attempt to avoid military service, Friedrich Trump might have been denied entry because he was thought to be of inferior stock.
There would be no Donald Trump. What a pleasant thought.
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