Gilbertown is the site of the first producing oil well in Alabama. First permitted oil well in Alabama. The first permit to drill an oil well in Alabama, the A. R. Jackson Well No. 1, was granted to the Hunt Oil Company on January 2, 1944, near Gilbertown.
Donald Trump is calling for the deportation of millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally and for the end of automatic citizenship for children born to foreigners on U.S. soil, adding specifics to the hard-line immigration stance that first helped his Republican presidential campaign take flight.
In our own time, nativism has emerged once again as a toxic force, thanks to Donald Trump's presidential ambitions. Once again, immigrants are made the targets and scapegoats. The President of the United States, Barack Obama, did not escape Trump's wrath. He was seen and denounced by Trump and his ilk as a foreigner, a Kenyan, who had no business in American politics. But the nativism in the Trump movement has been even more pervasive.