Eugenics, Anti-Immigration Laws Of The Past Still Resonate Today, Journalist Says

Daniel Okrent on how Trump’s hard-line position on immigration echoes the anti-immigration and eugenicist sentiments of the early 1900s: 

“I think that one could say that today’s Central Americans and today’s Muslims … are the equivalent of 1924’s Jews and Italians, or … the Jews and Italians then were treated and regarded as these Latin American and Muslim nationalities are today. When you choose your immigrants, when you choose your next door neighbors on the basis of their ethnicity or their race rather than the nature of the individual him- or herself, you’re engaged in, in this case, official legal discrimination.”