Donald Trump says immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” As always, the erstwhile President is mute regarding facts to support his allegation.
Whose blood is being poisoned, by whom? My guess—who knows?—Trump views the blood being poisoned flowing from Eastern Europe: Britan, Ireland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, the Rus’? Iberian, Italian, Greek, and Balkan blood probably would not pass muster. Mexican, Central and South American, African, Middle and Far Eastern, and Asian immigrants, three-quarters of Earth’s population, conspire to poison America’s blood.
Donald’s paternal grandparents, his mother, and two of three wives are immigrants. Trumps were German. Mom, Mary Anne (née MacLeod), Scottish. Wives number one, Ivana Marie (née Zelnickovia) and three “Malania” (Melanija née Knavs) are Czech and Slovenian immigrants. Do immigrant mothers’ blood poison Donald Jr.’s, Ivonka’s, Eric’s, and Barron’s Trump blood?
The proposition that any race or nationality is inferior or superior to others is antithetical to America’s fundamental principles and creed, the heart of human-caused suffering. To assert that any human is “vermin,” that they poison “the blood of our country,” is stereotyping, prejudice, and bigotry at its very worst!
From Jamestown to L.A., Plymouth Rock to Seattle, American is a nation of immigrants. What became of,
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The retched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
Emma Lazarus’s sonnet, “New Colossus,”
on a plaque inside the Statue of Liberty
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