In attempting to explain how degraded I find the contemporary and always-raging American “debate” about immigration to be, I sometimes call up a stupid old tweet. For 10 years or so, this viral tweet has done its pious rounds in many forms. It always features an image of the late founder of Apple, Steve Jobs — if Jobs is pictured with an iPhone, all the better – and the simpering text that accompanies it goes along the lines of: “Son of a Syrian immigrant.” Some later versions slipped in the word “Muslim” for added pizzazz. And that’s it. That’s the gotcha…

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