George H.W. Bush: “I have a strong feeling with Mr. Mitterrand and others in France that we have an obligation, the French have an…”

I think you are engaging in the soft bigotry of low expectations.

We've seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty.

I have always contended that. And I believe that you do not have a growing dynamic economy without the creative abilities and devotion and loyalty that immigrants bring to their country.

This means that people of every race, religion, ethnicity can be fully and equally American. It means that bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed.