Letter: This is a sick, sadistic chapter in American history

In the late 1930s, a ship of Jewish immigrants from Europe arrived at a U.S. port, seeking asylum from the scourge of Germany. Because the U.S. was practicing a policy of isolationism at the time, those desperate people were turned away, only to return to Europe and the horrors of World War II and concentration camps.Have we learned nothing in the past 80 years? While Trump and his ilk would like to portray people seeking asylum at our southern borders as gang members, drug runners and thieves,