Letter: America isn’t ‘better than this’ immigration issue

Lies are the foundation of our immigration system — “immigrants bring crime,” or “immigrants steal our benefits and welfare” — but the worst lie is that we are better than this — “this isn’t America.” Pick up a book and look up nativism, the Know-Nothing Party, the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Gentlemen’s Agreement with Japan, immigration quotas, the Bracero program, Japanese (and Japanese-Latin American) internment, “Operatio