Immigrants, particularly immigrants from what President Trump has described as “S**thole Countries,” are rejecting those "S**tholes." That’s why they’re immigrants.
Yet it's long been the norm to assume otherwise. Consider 19th century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. Describing existing and would-be Irish immigrants, he thundered about how “They hate our free and fertile isle. They hate our order, our civilization, our enterprising industry, our sustained courage, our decorous liberty, our pure religion. This wild, reckless, indolent, uncertain and superstitious race has no sympathy with the English character.” And that’s not all Disraeli had to say about the arrival of the Irish and their capacity to “imperil England.”
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