Nice People (1931) by Bertrand Russell, excerpted from Why I Am Not A Christian and other essays on religion and related subjects
“I know at this moment a foreign woman living in England, in happy though extralegal union with a man whom she loves and who loves her; unfortunately her political opinions are not so conservative as could be wished, though they are mere opinions, about which she does nothing. The nice people, however, have used this excuse to set Scotland Yard upon the scent, and she is to be sent back to her native country to starve. In England, as in America, the foreigner is a morally degrading influence, and we all owe a debt of gratitude to the police for the care which they take to see that only exceptionally virtuous foreigners are allowed to reside among us.”
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