Trump also had been right about one thing: immigrants did get a free ride. They had been let into the country too easily. Immigrants did need stricter qualifications for citizenship. There was no doubt that the white European immigrants who one hundred years ago knocked on the doors of Ellis Island should have faced a higher bar for entry. They should have gotten a months-long education on the Americans’ destruction of its indigenous populations, on its history of slavery, on its persecution of darker-skinned immigrants, on its invasion and occupation of Cuba and the Philippines—and later, on
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