Trump and Immigration

Dear editor: 

President Trump has announced a new policy stating that immigration preference would be granted to those with specialty needed skills and can speak English.  He just doesn’t appreciate the history of our country and the building of America by its immigrant population.  My family is a good example of that immigrant experience and one that represents so many coming to this country, who believed in the words on the plaque of the Statue of Liberty, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. I lift my lamp beside the Golden Door.” Those words were written by Emma Lazarus, a fourth generation member of an immigrant family

In the first two decades of the twentieth century my grandparents (paternal and maternal) came to America from Poland and the Ukraine with three children and without the ability to speak a single word of English, being able only to communicate in their mother tongue and Yiddish. They didn’t bring any extra special needed skills needed by our growing country but instead had a hunger for freedom, and to my knowledge not one had a secondary school education.  One grandfather was a “rag man” and the other a cabinet maker, both successful in their trades, here in America.  No one was ever on any kind of welfare or assistance from the government.  If Donald J. Trump and his minions had been in office at the time all would have been refused entry thru the Golden Door, and perished in the Holocaust of Hitler’s gas chambers and ovens. Yes, we are Jewish, and love America.

In time, the two families grew to five children, eleven grandchildren (all college educated) and untold great grandchildren and great-great grandchildren.  Needless to point out all are fluent in English and have been successful in their endeavors.  Many have proudly served, and are still currently serving in our country’s armed forces, which is more than you can say for deferment Trump and his family.

The president and his administration are truly showing bigotry against anyone who “isn’t like them” and thinks nothing about leaving so many to starve and perish without having the opportunity my family and so many others have had.  Don’t let him do this.