In response to President Trump’s wiretapping claim, Senator Rubio said, “I’m not sure what he’s talking about.”  He might as well put that on a loop.

Dr. Carson, saying slaves were immigrants is equivalent to saying concentration camp victims were non-paying guests.

Throwing immigrants out and preventing immigrants from coming into our country is still a major aim of this administration.  Aside from losing all those people who build our houses, pick up our trash, flip our burgers, mow our lawns and a myriad of other jobs which nobody else in this country will take, there are the thousands and thousands of immigrants who have made enormous contributions to the American way of life.  Here are just a few of the notables:

 

Albert Einstein, Germany, Physicist

I M Pei, China, Architect

Irving Berlin, Russia, Composer

J J Audubon, Haiti, Ornithologist

Andrew Carnegie, Scotland, Industrialist 

Joseph Pulitzer, Hungary, Journalist

Madeline Albright, Czechoslovakia, Secretary of State

Nikola Tesla, Croatia, Inventor

Sergey Brin, Russia, Founder of Google

Alexander Graham Bell, Scotland, Inventor

Pierre Omidyar, France, Founder of Ebay

Maxwell Kohl, Poland, Department Store Founder

Jerry Yang, Taiwan, Yahoo! Founder

John Nordstrom Sweden, Department Store Founder

Nooshun Hashemi, Iran, Philanthropist

Jamshed Bharucha, India, Neuroscientist

Rupert Murdoch, Australia, Fox News Network

Arianna Huffington, Greece, Publisher

Firouz Naderi, Iran, Director at NASA

Arieh Warshek, Israel, Nobel Prize Biochemist

Romana Banuelos, Mexico, Secretary of Treasury

Domenico Ghirardelli, Italy, Chocolatier

Charles Elachi, Lebanon, Director Jet Propulsion Lab

Max Factor, Poland, Cosmetologist

Edward G Robinson, Romania, Actor

Al Jolson, Lithuania, Singer

Knute Rockne, Norway, Football Coach

Jule Styne, England, Composer

Elia Kazan, Turkey, Director

Maria von Trapp, Austria, Singer

 And special thanks to all of my grandparents for being immigrants to the United States.  Without them, I wouldn’t be here!!!