Presidential Election and Republican Critics

National Archives: Though he did not mention the presidential election or his Republican critics, his target was clear, according to Toronto Star. He used the occasion to remind Americans that almost all of their families were immigrants at some point — and to pointedly remind them of the dark discrimination of the country past, from African-American slavery to no-Irish-allowed signs to the ban on Chinese immigration to Japanese-American internment. Obama delivered the address at an event imbued with meaning: a citizenship ceremony, held in the grand National Archives room where the original Bill of Rights is stored, on the 224th anniversary of the document ratification. His unspoken suggestion: the Islamophobia of the moment could produce decisions just as dangerous. We betrayed not only our fellow Americans but our deepest values. We succumbed to fear. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.