many are tall. blonde, blue eyed. con denli condemning the president's words, that's the easy part. the harder question to answer is why he's probably right in thinking his comment will invigorate his base. lots of factors, bigotry among them, for sure. there's a widespread perception that european immigrants do better here than haitian or african immigrants. the statistics don't match those perceptions. while the stats for haitians on income and education fall below the u.s. average, africans and europeans are on par with the overall u.s., median income is above the u.s. population as is education. and here's the stat that really jumps out, more haitians and africans are in the workforce than europeans by a big margin. some leaving the third world are escaping sad, horrific conditions. shame he didn't say it that way wlachlt set us apart is our history of welcoming them. you know the inscription. give me your tired, poor,