“America Wanted to Keep Immigrants Out Long Before Donald Trump Was Even Born — The United States was an explicitly racist project intended to populate the land with white people—maybe that’s what Donald means by ‘Make America Great Again’?”

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This is an interesting article that appeared in The Nation today about the history of immigration in the United States.  It gives a clear picture of how the phrase “a nation of immigrants” is misleading and poorly understood by many citizens.