Then it was French Canadians, the famine Irish, Catholic Italians, anarchist Germans, fleeing Jews, Asian workers attacked by other immigrants, and Spanish-speaking Latin Americans. In the big picture, the United States is in its second great wave of immigration since 1900. In 2015, Donald Trump said this of Mexican immigrants: "They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. And this week Trump is alleged to have complained “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” during discussion of immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti and Africa.

Source: Washington Post January 12, 2018 23:54 UTC