What To Do About Immigrants? Let Them All In.

I have just turned off the second segment of Ken Burns’ documentary on America and the Holocaust because it was too depressing to see newsreels of public meetings in America during the 1930’s where speaker after speaker got up and exhorted the audience to fight against letting Jews from Germany emigrate to the United States after Kristallnacht.

My mother and her parents, my grandparents, came to the United States from Eastern Europe in 1923 — their boat docked at a pier in Brooklyn just two months before the law went into effect that would have kept them from getting off that boat. Had their ship arrived in New York harbor 58 days later than it did, they would have had the choice of either floating around the world hoping to find some other country to take them in, or they could have gone back to their shtetl outside of Kiev which had been destroyed by a pogrom in 1921.

The immigration restrictions that Trump and his shithead, self-hating Jewish acolyte Stephen Miller tried to enact in 2017 was effectively a legislative return to the 1923 legislative regime except it was aimed primarily at Muslims, not at Jews. It was also aimed at Christians if they were Christians trying to get into the United States over the border from the South.

I notice, by the way, that the alleged new GOP electoral strategy Commitment to America, which went up and then went back down on Friday, mentions something about making the country ‘safe’ by funding technologies that will prevent ‘illegal’ border…