Alien vs. Predator

W e are staring at a massive face-off between two opposing sides in an ongoing and escalating battle for what constitutes the “soul of America.” On the one hand, history tells us that immigration has always been part and parcel of what it means to be American; our ancestors all came from some place else. Our views of our own ancestors’ struggles in the Old World suggest that they thought (and we agree) that it was worth it to come here, to “the land of…