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"Trump's Immigrant Ancestors Should Have Been Locked In Cages, Then
Expelled From America or Executed" - Far Right Immigration Expert
Trump’s Family Fortune Originated in a Canadian Gold-Rush Brothel -
Pimping Is The Family Tradition
Donald Trump’s grandfather Friedrich Trump ran a restaurant, bar, and
brothel in British Columbia.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-trump-family-fortune/
The President In 1885 Didn't Stop Immigrant Friedrich Trump From Coming To America
Stuart Anderson , CONTRIBUTOR
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2018/01/15/the-president-in- 1885-didnt-stop-immigrant-friedrich-trump-from-coming-to-america/
“Friedrich Trump was not leaving home so much as fleeing three centuries
of barbaric European history,” writes Gwenda Blair, author of the well- researched book The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a President.
“He was born and raised in the village of Kallstadt, in the region of southwestern Germany called the Pfalz, or the Palatinate in English.
Today, the Pfalz, a lush, pleasant, affluent place, shows little sign of
its nightmarish past. But in Friedrich Trump’s time, memories were fresh,
and young people with poor prospects tried to escape as soon as they
could.”
The region was ravaged by wars and misrule that propelled Germans like Friedrich Trump to flee to America. “Unfortunately, its proximity to the
Rhine meant that the rest of Europe also had easy access to Kallstadt –
with dreadful results,” according to Blair. “Over the centuries the Pfalz
was invaded, sometimes more than once, by Spain, Austria, Prussia, Russia
and France.”
Donald Trump and fellow opponents of family immigration like to call it "extended-family chain migration.” But that is simply a political slogan designed to justify efforts to eliminate the ability of U.S. citizens to sponsor their parents, siblings or adult children for immigration. There
are no “extended family” categories and no one in America considers their mother or 21-year-old daughter an “extended family member.” Those opposing family immigration, including the Trump administration itself, also openly oppose the entry of more high-skilled immigrants and temporary visa
holders, despite the use of the term “merit-based.”
As discussed in an earlier article, family immigration has been an
important part of American history. Simply put, historically, what critics
call “chain migration” is nothing more than immigrants who succeed later helping out their family members.
In fact, Columbia University historian Mae M. Ngai notes, “Donald Trump is
a product of ‘chain migration.’”
The 16-year-old Friedrich Trump, who spoke little English, would not have hopped on a ship and came to America without a family member already in
place to help him. In 1885, when Friedrich immigrated, he joined his
sister Katherine, who “had immigrated to New York a year earlier,”
according to Gwenda Blair.
After building up his finances, Friedrich went back to Germany and fell in
love with Elizabeth Christ, who eventually became Donald Trump’s
grandmother. Elizabeth Christ Trump immigrated to America with Friedrich
and one of their children was Fred Trump, Donald Trump’s father.
Ironically, Blair points out, Donald Trump's grandmother did not
assimilate well to America and she and her husband returned to Germany but could not stay because Friedrich Trump had not performed compulsory
military service.
The same pattern of an earlier family member helping another close
relative can be seen with Donald Trump’s mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, who
many people may be surprised to learn was an immigrant. Mary Anne
MacLeod’s sister was married and lived in Queens. That allowed Mary Anne
to immigrate to America from Scotland in 1930 as an 18-year-old with few
skills with the help of her sister, who she lived with upon arrival,
according to Blair. In 1936, Mary Anne attended a party with her sister
and met Fred Trump. The couple married and had children, including a son
named Donald Trump.
When Friedrich Trump first came to America, earlier anti-German feeling
had subsided and the man who occupied the White House, Grover Cleveland,
did not oppose immigration. China was the country that most riled
opponents of immigration at the time and it resulted in the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
Grover Cleveland became president in 1885 and signed the Geary Act in
1892, which made it much easier to deport Chinese immigrants. But
Cleveland was also heavily criticized in California for not following
through on deporting large numbers of Chinese laborers, according to Lucy
E. Salyer, author of Laws Harsh as Tigers.
On March 9, 1897, Grover Cleveland vetoed a broad immigration bill that
would have excluded any immigrant to the U.S. who could not read and
write. In his veto message, he called the legislation “a radical departure
from our national policy” on immigration.
“We have encouraged those coming from foreign countries to cast their lot
with us and join in the development of our vast domain, securing in return
a share in the blessings of American citizenship,” declared Cleveland. “A century's stupendous growth, largely due to the assimilation and thrift of millions of sturdy and patriotic adopted citizens, attests the success of
this generous and free-handed policy which, while guarding the people's interests, exacts from our immigrants only physical and moral soundness
and a willingness and ability to work.”
President Cleveland warned the threat to the American people came not from immigrants without education, but from a skillful communicator: “In my
opinion, it is infinitely more safe to admit a hundred thousand immigrants
who, though unable to read and write, seek among us only a home and
opportunity to work than to admit one of those unruly agitators . . . who
can not only read and write, but delights in arousing by inflammatory
speech the illiterate and peacefully inclined to discontent and tumult.”
During World War I, German immigrants and German-Americans like the Trumps became a focus of hostility. “The fury that broke upon the German-
Americans in 1915 represented the most spectacular reversal of judgment in
the history of American nativism,” wrote John Higham in Strangers in the
Land. In what sounds strikingly similar to Donald Trump’s claim that “thousands” of Muslims in New Jersey celebrated the attacks of 9/11,
Higham writes, “By August there was common talk that German-Americans were rejoicing over the death of American citizens on torpedoed ships.”
Donald Trump should be sensitive to how entire groups can be maligned,
since to escape anti-German prejudice his own father, Fred Trump, “would quietly promote the notion that the family was actually Swedish,” reports Gwenda Blair. She notes, “Given his own family history, one might expect
Trump to endorse America's history of embracing immigrants.”
Analyzing Donald Trump’s recent remarks about immigrants, the Washington
Post’s Karen Tumulty noted, “By his standard, the ancestors of most
Americans, including his own, might well have been excluded. Hardship is traditionally what drives people to uproot and seek out opportunities elsewhere.”
Legislation for Dreamers, young immigrants brought to America by their
parents, is currently being held hostage by a president, his advisers and
a number of legislators who show little respect for America’s tradition as
a nation of immigrants – even if their parents or grandparents benefited
from that tradition.
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