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Newcomers to a new land. as we just look to the very beginning of this union, in the late 1800s also had a large rejection of those from china, for instance. that was also part of this nationalism that was existing at that time. are we seeing a major shift, then, just really quickly here, touch on that? >> yes. >> in the very ideology. >> the first immigration restriction act was the alien sedition act of 1798. there's always been an other. back then it was actually the french and canadians and the germans and the jews, the italians, the mexicans. this is the biggest question. are we going to ...

Since really from the very beginning. the moment in trump tower where he referred to immigrants, some immigrants as rapists coming from mexico. you can't say we weren't warned about this particular tendency of the president, a persistent tendency, to play to ancient fears, in american life, of the "other." this began in 1798. john adams, alien and sedition acts, this has been a persistent theme. 1924, we basically, we imposed national, nationality quotas which made it very difficult for immigration, for immigrants to come in in the middle part of the century. that didn't change until 1965. wha...

Now that it's even they are all safe and have cocktails so i can get my sea legs back. >> john: oh, really? >> april: yeah. >> anthony: april owns the joint now. taken over for her father, the legendary reggie, a forward-thinking dude if there ever was one. >> april: it was built in 1798. >> anthony: how long in the family? in your family? >> april: over 75 years. my father, during that time, he had billie holiday appeared, he had nina symone, ella fitzgerald, all the big names in jazz. >> anthony: how has town changed? has it changed? >> april: i think tremendously. gay lifestyle is much more...

Crime declining. the economy's going very well. we seem to have relatively peaceful situation right now. immigration though is a question that i did have for you. start of the show showing this increasing demand from americans to say we have to do something about this pressure on our border. immigration comes up again and again in our history. is there anything you can point to what our founders were thinking to help us figure thout moment? >> they're as guilty as we are to playing the nativist race card on immigration. alienist act passed in 1798. i think that the dominant pattern in the earl...

>> april: yeah. >> anthony: april owns the joint now. taken over for her father, the legendary reggie, a forward-thinking dude if there ever was one. >> april: it was built in 1798. >> anthony: how long in the family? in your family? >> april: over 75 years. my father, during that time, he had billie holiday appeared, he had nina symone, ella fitzgerald, all the big names in jazz. >> anthony: how has town changed? has it changed? >> april: i think tremendously. gay lifestyle is much more accepted. >> anthony: okay, 1972, my feeling was that this was a gay town, and that i was here at the pleas...