Boris Johnson and Priti Patel Are Immigrants Too
They’ve thrown their lot in with the “Somewheres” over the “Anywheres.” But we can’t ignore their democratic mandate on curbing migration.
The descendants.
Photographer: BEN STANSALL/AFPThe children of immigrants aren’t happy about immigration.
Donald Trump’s German-born grandfather came to America illegally as a teenager at the end of the 19th century, a fact he doesn’t mention when threatening to deport millions of undocumented migrants. Britain’s exit from the European Union’s free-movement area was championed by Boris Johnson, a U.S.-born descendant of an Ottoman-Turkish minister. And the U.K.’s new stricter points-based immigration system, favoring specific skills, is to be run by Home Secretary Priti Patel, whose Ugandan-born parents arrived in the country with “nothing.”