According to Trump, "if you win, you'll have the largest deportation operation in history, starting at noon on January 21."
About the Video
On May 1, 1517 — now referred to as Evil May Day — riots broke out in London as a response to an influx of immigrant workers. Eighty years later, a play was written that includes some of these events. The play, called Sir Thomas More, wasn't published or performed at the time, quite possibly because it was censored. This speech from the play is delivered to the rampaging crowd by Thomas More, who was sheriff of London at the time. Thomas More asks the rioters to imagine themselves in the shoes of the immigrants they're attacking. The manuscript shown in the video is an original version of the speech and was very likely written by William Shakespeare.
Transcript of the Video
Grant them
removed, and grant that this your
noise
Hath
chid down all the majesty of England;
Imagine that you see the
wretched strangers,
Their babies
at their backs and their poor luggage,
Plodding to the ports and coasts for transportation,
And that you sit as kings in your desires,
Authority quite silent by your brawl,
And you
in ruff of your opinions clothed;
What had you
got? I’ll tell you: you had taught
How
insolence and
strong hand should prevail,
How order should be
quelled; and by this pattern
Not one of you should live an agèd man,
For other
ruffians, as their
fancies wrought,
With
self same hand, self reasons, and self
right,
Would
shark on you, and men like
ravenous fishes
Would feed on one another.
[...]
Say now the king,
As he is
clement if th’offender
mourn,
Should
so much come too short of your great
trespass
As but to banish you,
whither would you go?
What country, by the nature of your
error,
Should give you
harbor? Go you to France or
Flanders,
To any German province, to Spain or Portugal,
Nay, anywhere that not
adheres to England,
Why, you
must needs be
strangers: would you be pleased
To find a nation of such
barbarous temper,
That, breaking out in hideous violence,
Would not
afford you an
abode on earth,
Whet their
detested knives against your throats,
Spurn you like dogs, and like as if that God
Owed not nor
made not you, nor that the elements
Were not all appropriate to your comforts,
But
chartered unto
them, what would you think
To be thus
used? This is the
strangers’ case;
And this your
mountainish inhumanity.
removed = deported
noise = rioting
chid = scolded
wretched strangers = miserable immigrants
at = on
authority = rulers/government
brawl = riot
in ruff = proudly
got = achieved
insolence = arrogant rudeness
strong hand = rioting
quelled = stopped
ruffians = violent criminals
fancies = desires
wrought = control them
self same = the exact same
right = righteousness
shark = prey
ravenous = greedy
clement = merciful
mourn = express regret
so much come too short of = do less than
trespass = offense
wither = where
error = crime
harbour = safety
Flanders = Belgium
adhere = belongs
must needs = must
strangers = immigrants
barbarous = savagely cruel
afford = give
abode = home
whet = sharpen
detested = hateful
spurn you = kick you out
owed = caused
made = created
chartered = rightfully given
them = the native citizens
used = treated
strangers' case = immigrants' situation
mountainous = enormous
