Monday was, as hard as this may be to remember, Martin Luther King Jr Day. An enormous number of schools all around the country were either closed or had assemblies where students heard about the life and accomplishments of the martyred civil rights crusader.

It was also the first day of Donald Trump’s second administration, and Trump signed an unprecedented number (twenty-six) of executive orders. Some were merely silly, like renaming the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” Others are vastly more ominous, like the order mandating far more aggressive use of the death penalty.

The worst of the lot attempts to deny citizenship to people born in the United States whose parents aren’t American citizens. While this isn’t a homogeneous group, a large majority is presumably composed of the children of people from Mexico and Central America, hence the long-standing hostility to “birthright” citizenship by immigration hawks who seek to reduce this population.