It's always awkward for me when a Jewish person whom I normally like and respect goes on a rant about the holiness of the English language and the supposed scourge of immigrants, especially the "undocumented."
I'm not going to load this with references and citations, because anyone honest and intelligent enough to even understand the question should be quite capable of getting the facts for himself.
We have a situation in Arizona now where American citizens may need to carry "papers" to avoid unceremonious arrest and imprisonment. Perhaps in the Maricopa County Concentration Camp, where people convicted (rightly or wrongly) of minor offenses have died in 110-degree heat with no medical care. Funny when it's happening to some guy who speaks with an accent and doesn't look like you. Not so funny when it's a lily-white American 70-year-old diabetic nailed for DUI, perhaps because he was on the verge of a diabetic coma, denied his insulin injections.
Illegal immigrants in the U.S. are under represented among professional criminals and prison inmates: they and their families commit fewer crimes on average than do American citizens. They do not sap our economy or steal our Social Security funds. They take agricultural jobs that would otherwise go unfilled (there is no long line of Americans waiting to make a career of picking apples) and thereby actually lower our food costs. Those who commit the "crime" of taking someone else's Social Security number pay into the system through wage deductions, but can never take any of those same dollars back.
It was only a small percentage of Jews in Germany who used their access to foreign currency to seize property from Germans impoverished by World War I and the Versailles Treaty, but the fascist demagogues spouted rhetoric to the effect that all Jews were white collar criminals and all white collar criminals were Jews. As William Shirer described it, the 5% of Germany's population who were responsible for 40% of its artistic and scientific accomplishments became scapegoats for 100% of its problems.
If you don't know who William Shirer was, please do yourself a favor and don't make loud pronouncements about this subject until you've read his "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich."
Oh, yeah, the language issue was used against Jews as well. Take the German language, forget 90% of the grammatical rules, chop out half of the vocabulary, add some words from Russian and Hebrew, and substitute instead of letters symbols from an unrelated liturgical language, and you have Yiddish. The broken English spoken by farm labor immigrants sounds Harvard educated by comparison. So...Jews had to be running a racket, otherwise they'd speak and write like everyone else. Outlaw Yiddish. Another step closer to the death camps.
Jews were among the first to be required to carry "papers" in Hitler's utopian empire. I'm sure that many Germans who thought of themselves as upright, moral, and patriotic favored this. Just as the most educated of them cheered when the use of "foreign" words like "telefon" and "das auto" were outlawed in favor of more purely Germanic words. Just as so many Americans get attacks of colitis on seeing airport directions in Spanish and French.
A Jew or anyone else has the right to hate anything and everything German if that's what helps him feel good about himself. It's considerably easier and cheaper than supporting JUF or or B'Nai B'rith, or volunteering time to human rights groups. Even easier than wearing all those ribbons. It's comforting to think that the Hitler phenomenoncould never happen here, but it's a lie. Whether you or I or any other child of Abraham like it or not, post WW I Germans were not an inferior species, and they had their share of legitimate complaints. If "it" happened there, "it" could happen anywhere.
But surely not in America, right? Horseypoo! One can make the point that it has already started. Germany had splinter parties that armed themselves to the teeth to resist lawful decrees of a popularly elected government. Like our own 2nd Amendment nut-cases who've never read the U.S. Constitution and show up at public meetings with AK-47s. Suspension of due process was supposedly necessary in light of all the threats Germany faced. We have a Jewish senator who proposes giving the State Department the right to revoke anyone's citizenship, without due process. Travel bans, selective arrests, a proliferation of government agencies to watch everyone and each other, unlimited spying on citizens: Hitler used all of them. We've started using them as well.
Who said justice will reign when each of us is as indignant about the wrong done to his neighbor as he is about the wrong done to himself? We could say it another way: Tyranny will rule when each of us thinks that a wrong done to the neighbor is justified as long as it makes us feel secure.
Or when that wrong done to the neighbor makes us feel special. A "true Aryan" perhaps.
Or a "real American"?