According to the census, Queens is the most racially and ethnically diverse county in the continental United States; it’s hard to think of a nationality or culture that isn’t represented there.
Immigrants are almost half the borough’s population and more than half its work force.
And no, Queens isn’t an urban hellscape.
It’s also relatively healthy, with life expectancy around three years higher than that of the United States as a whole.
But Trump has declared that migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” — a phrase that, to steal from the late, great Molly Ivins, might sound better in the original German.
Persons:
Donald Trump, isn’t, It’s, Trump, Molly Ivins, MAGA
Locations:
Queens, United States, Jackson, New York City, New York, America