<p><span class="deck">It’s a politician’s bromide, and it also happens to be a profound truth. No war, no national crisis, has left a greater impress on the American psyche than the successive waves of new arrivals that quite literally built the country. Now that arguments against immigration are rising again, it is well to remember that every single one of them has been heard before.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">It came over with the <span class="typestyle"> Mayflower</span> and stayed on to be the unchallenged drink of democracy. </span></p>
