For two hundred years, Americans have been un-American. From time to time, to greater or lesser extents. Usually some were anti-immigrant, sometimes most were.
Interesting attempt to rewrite history through sheer assertion and domination of the discussion.
I had a teacher once who pointed out that "anti-Soviet" was nicely defined: It was whatever the rulers of the USSR wanted it to be, meant to intimidate foes and muster the faithful to police society on their behalf. It meant basically, "The leaders disapprove, and so therefore it is defined as wrong." "Leaders" in the US were representatives; they too their cues from the population, from the electorate, instead of trying to coerce and shape the electorate in their own image. In such a society, "un-American" was the closest thing to something truly un-American. Nothing was truly anti-American or even un-American because there was such a diversity of views in the US and such a tolerance of speech and opinion that the word tended to be used only in authoritarian ways that most Americans properly denounced as deviant and, well, authoritarian.
Like the House Un-American Activities Committee.
That teacher was, of course, a Soviet Jew who was put upon sufficiently that he was all but forced to emigrate to the US (via Italy). He was, of course, described as anti-Soviet.
Perhaps we can have a PUAC, a Presidential Un-American Activities Council, to help ferret out such moral social taint as anti-immigrant opinion eliminate it. But first they have to start with the historical record.
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