The answer is YES! The reason why Republicans refuse to understand is because they themselves lack a large base of diversity within their own party. The republican party are typically well-off, white, older, Christian males.
While they are some exceptions tp the demographic, this serves as the primary basis of their make up in terms of diversity. So why do republicans hate immigration? Its because the majority of them don't know any better.
If they could understand the plights of the various ethnicities. If only they could understand that while there are smugglers and criminals that enter this nation, that there are people who wish to provide for their families in this nation (juat as they would). Who are we to deny them this right?
If only these republicans could understand that this nation is not one made just for whites, but that it was made for liberty and justice for ALL.
Way way back, "America" was just empty land, maybe a few cavepeople may have walked over the land connections at some point before the continents completely separated but by and large, American is made up of iimmigrants--including the Native Peoples. As other countries found ways to get to America, immigrants came over. Some can voluntarily.
Some came involuntarily. Some came under the "sponsorship" of rich guys who intended to only use the cheap labor to increase their own dreams and wealth but found shipping all that cheap labor back to their original countries was too expensive when they could just lay them off when the work was done. Those guys couldn't afford to sail back home and decided to settle in America. Technically, we are all immigrants since the human race first developed in Asia, Africa and Europe.
However, a lot of what the US has become has happened after those immigrants had US-born children who grew up and built/discover/invented/created stuff. So not everything was built by immigrants. See how your question can be interpreted many ways?
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.