Stephen Miller states that even some grandchildren in immigrant families fail to adapt to American culture.

Miller wrote: “migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands,” suggesting that he is an unadapted grandchild who better fits the dictatorial government his family fled, not America’s great democracy built and enriched by centuries of diverse immigrants.

Rep. David Reed’s 1924 Johnson-Reed law that constricted legal entry asserted, “Southern and Eastern Europeans (many of them Catholics and Jews) … arrive … less capable of contributing to the American economy, and unable to adapt to American culture.”

Many Republicans today assert that immigrants are “poisoning America’s blood,” for example potentially undermining America’s tradition of great scientific achievements. Claiming to “protect our blood,” Donald Trump, Miller and Republicans are slashing even legal immigration, and........

© NY Daily News