The bigotry and resentment didn't come anything close to starvation, pogroms, or simple murder for being a despised minority in the old country. This is how we got so many hard working people, glad for a second chance at life, who made our country great, and brought so many different traditions along with themselves.

We're all immigrants in this country, from the "Native" Americans to the family who just stepped off the plane or walked across our border yesterday.

Dave