The US and Canada are great countries, built by immigrants.

The idea that the immigrants of the past were somehow better than the immigrants of the present is wrong. In the 1800s many people had the same sentiments about Irish and Italians coming here as you see today about Muslims.

There is no threat to our values or culture. The outcries of populist leaders are appeals to emotion, lacking any basis in sound evidence or reason. It is precisely the same call that demagogues have used time and time again for millenia to stir up angry support -- "Look at that group, they are not like us, and they threaten us -- trust me with power so that I might stop them."