I can think of lots of groups I have heard that "bad people" generalization about, with various reasons and stories - from Americans to Indigenous people to Muslims and Catholics (all religious people, even) to the wealthy, to the homeless, to immigrants to Albertans.
I remember as a child being strongly influenced by my grandmother's stories about Quebecois (not the term she used) in the early 70s. I'll spare you the stories, which I am sure you can guess, but the upshot was me standing up in my first French class and telling everyone why we had no business learning that language. Not my proudest memory, but one I think is important as a reminder.
Those kinds of observations demonstrate our better values how, exactly? And in what way does it have any bearing on the way we treat people, or how they should be treated under the law?
and @ k
Cross posted with you. I agree completely. Besides, they have done that already down in the states and had little to show for it other than hundreds of terrified children wondering why they were being taken from their families.