We can certainly have a debate about immigration, but we don’t have to do it like Trump

Citizens everywhere clearly want to have a debate about immigrants and refugees. Some are worried, some are scared. Some are racists, but some actually aren’t.

U.S. President Donald Trump, pictured in this file photo. What’s wrong is to do it as Mr. Trump has done in the space of just a few days: by pledging to put up walls, and by dislocating tax-paying, law-abiding American citizens who happen to have been born somewhere else, writes Warren Kinsella. Photograph courtesy of Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY WARREN KINSELLA

February 6, 2017

TORONTO—“He’s doing what he said he was going to do. Let them protest.” The unlikely scene: a drinking establishment somewhere in the Dominican Republic. Two American men are perched on stools at the bar, watching a satellite TV report from Long Island, New York, of all places, showing foot...

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