Most of our ancestors got thrown out of where ever country they came from or skipped one step ahead of the law.
Does he have the idea that this is disqualifying in any manner?
Were three-quarters grizzly bear and two-thirds car wreck and descended from a stock market crash on our mothers side. - PJ O'Rourke
"We're Americans, with a capital 'A', huh? You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We're the underdog. We're mutts!
We're mutants. There's something wrong with us, something very, very wrong with us."