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No, tRump doesn't like immigrants although he, as all Americans, except the Indigenous people, belong to families who emigrated to USA at some point of the historical past. As his paternal grandfather, Friedrich Trump, was a sickly individual who wasn't up to hard work he may have found it necessary to escape military service in his homeland of Germany. Maybe he saw the opportunity to emigrate to America as some sort of lifesaver.
Anyway, in 1885 the 16-year-old German barber Friedrich Trump escaped three years of compulsory military service by boarding a ship to America. Was he an illegal immigrant? That may very well be the case, but it took a couple of generations to see that as a problem so he settled down as best he could: He set up business as e.g. hotelier, saloonkeeper, New York real-estate investor and, for some time, making a living as a pimp. However, both his son and his grandson, Donald Trump, denied the fact that he was a German.
The German heritage must have been felt as something derogatory, as both tRump and his father claimed that their family was from Scandinavia. As so often with tRump lies followed upon lies, and he kept claiming, even for decades, that his paternal family was Swedish and not at all German.
The tRump persecution of immigrants is very interesting as something that points at his well-known lack of self-insight as well as his readiness to lie when he feels that's necessary to save his image. Nonetheless, tRump is the son, and grandson of immigrants and none of his grandparents were born in USA. Looking at the immigration history of his German grandfather, he may not even meet his own criteria for an American citizenship.
Interesting enough, only two of the last 10 American presidents have had a parent born outside of the USA. Barack Obama and tRump. With tRump it's his Scottish-born mother who is the foreigner of the family:
https://www.history.com/news/donald-trump-father-mother-ancestry
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