Wow - great tweet from CNN's Jim Sciutto. Nails it.

[PatrickforO]

15. My ancestors on my father's side were poor Irish Catholic peasants

who fled the potato famine in the late 1840s, and came to the United States on coffin ships. In 1847, County Roscommon in Ireland was definitely thought of as a shit hole.

Here's a great quote from another Irish immigrant of that era:
"We wouldn't die, and that annoyed them. They'd spent centuries trying to kill us off, one way or another, and here we were, raising seven, eight, nine of a family on nothing but potatoes and buttermilk. But then the blight destroyed the potato. Three times in four years our only food rotted in the ground. Nothing to eat, the healthy crops sent away to feed England. We starved. More than a million died - most of them in the West, which is only a quarter of the country, with Ireland itself just half the size of Illinois. A small place to hold so much suffering."

"But we didn't all die. Two million of us escaped, one reaching back for the next. Surely one of the great rescues in human history. We saved ourselves, helped only by God and our own strong faith. Now look at us, doing well all over the world. We didn't die."

Honora Keeley Kelly, born 1822, County Galway, Ireland.

Now, we see this young lady from Africa, who has come here and made good. Let us rejoice with her in her success instead of hating her because she is an immigrant. THAT is the American way, or should be.