Surely a timely reminder of what a President’s message can do to immigrants and the murders and brutal assaults the gutter press procured in early decades of the last century. A very important message.

Not forgetting, of course, the appalling exploitation and repression of slavery, the genocide of the native Americans and the racist repression of Latinos, Mexicans in particular: ”

“Pobre de México tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca de Estados Unidos”

“Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States.”