Building Walls: Nation and Immigrants

building walls: America's history also is replete with efforts to shut the golden door to arrivals from China, from Eastern and Southern Europe and most recently, from predominantly Muslim nations, according to The Chronicle Herald. America's relationship with immigration is ... complicated. It's a nation that welcomes the world's wretched refuse, a nation built by immigrants, a nation whose very motto is E Pluribus Unum Out of Many, One. Many of us politicians, people who are speaking out against the impact of the administration's actions are saying, 'We are a nation of immigrants. But we also have a long record of barring immigrants, denigrating them, building walls. This goes against our most important values.' And that is absolutely true, said Erika Lee, director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.