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Donald Trump’s mother, Mary, was an immigrant. But Trump doesn’t often bring up his Scottish ancestry on the campaign trail.Photograph by Marina Garnier / NYP Holdings, Inc. via Getty
In
November of 1929, a seventeen-year-old Scotswoman, Mary Anne MacLeod,
boarded the S.S. Transylvania in Glasgow, bound for New York City. With a
high arching brow and deep, round eyes, MacLeod hailed from Tong, a
remote fishing community in the parish of Stornoway, in the Outer
Hebrides of Scotland. Although the American stock market was in a
freefall, Europe, in the shadow of war, was in no better shape. Scots
had been emigrating for years, trying to find better opportunities.
In
New York, MacLeod would find a well-established community of countrymen
and women, including two of her sisters. She took more than one
transatlantic trip before settling in New York, in the thirties. On at
least two ship manifests and in the 1930 census, her occupation is
listed as “maid” or “domestic.”
Mary
MacLeod would eventually become Mary Trump, the mother of Donald Trump,
the presumptive Republican nominee for President. She died in 2000,
long before her son’s political ascent but not before he became a
business celebrity. This week, Trump visited his mother’s homeland,
attending the official opening of a renovated Trump Turnberry, a golf
course he owns in South Ayrshire. As global markets dropped
precipitously in response to the Brexit referendum,
just the day before, in which British citizens voted to break from the
European Union, Trump praised the sprinkler systems on the course—“the
highest level”—and Turnberry’s “incredible suites.” His Turnberry speech
was almost entirely about his golf course, but he did talk about his
mother, and how she had enjoyed eating dinner at Turnberry when she
returned to Scotland to visit. “Her loyalty to Scotland was incredible,”
he said. “She respected and loved the Queen.”
Like
Barack Obama’s father, Trump’s mother was an immigrant. But Trump
doesn’t often bring up his Scottish ancestry on the campaign trail. The
“about” section of the Trump campaign’s Web site makes no mention of the Scottish-born matriarch,
nor have his opponents reached much for the chance at a dig, given
Trump’s campaign-defining comments about immigrants, at least those from
Mexico or who are Muslims. Only Ted Cruz brought up Mrs. Trump’s
Scottish birth, in a Republican Presidential debate in January.
On
October 19, 1885, the S.S. Eider approached Sandy Hook, New Jersey, and
the Narrows, twelve days after it had departed Bremen, Germany. As the
four-hundred-and-thirty-foot vessel navigated through New York Harbor,
it would have passed Bedloe’s Island, on the port side, where an
enormous pedestal was under construction. The Statue of Liberty was
nearby, in crates, not yet assembled. Like so much of America, she was a
work in progress.
On
deck, a sixteen-year-old boy was carrying the hopes of his family, back
home in Germany. The Drumpfs had long before simplified their name to
Trump, and they were shedding the superfluities of Europe in other ways,
too. Friedrich, the young man on board, had trained as a barber’s
apprentice, but saw little reason to stay in the small town of
Kallstadt, in the Palatinate, where his prospects were limited. He
harbored higher aspirations.
For
Trump, as for most immigrants to New York at the time, the point where
he would disembark was Castle Garden, at the foot of Manhattan. Ellis
Island would not open its doors until 1892. Castle Garden was neither a
castle nor a garden but an old fort, built at the Battery. Its original
purpose was to repulse the British, who appeared likely to invade again,
when the fort was built, on the eve of the War of 1812. But, as the
city grew, priorities shifted, developers sniffed around, and suddenly
the old fort was welcoming foreigners instead of defending against them.
Castle Garden was repurposed as a beer garden, a musical theatre, and,
finally, as the Emigrant Landing Depot, where immigrants were processed
by the State of New York before they would begin new lives.« (...)
(in The Nation)
A actual lei posta em prática contra os imigrantes, foi traçada e escrita pela administração Obama. O verdadeiro responsável pela lei, foi Obama. Já gora, tente também ver o que Obama fez aos arrendatários pobres e aos que procuram casa, na América, antes de sair da presidência.
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