The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set newsroom policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. The idea that non-white immigrants are coming to the United States as part of some “Great Replacement” is foolish. Period. End of story. Immigrants want to come to the United States today not for some surreptitious race war, but rather the same reason immigrants have come for centuries.