I think my views on immigration are liberal for someone from my background. I was born in Thailand, but I would never imply any connection to Thailand because Thais don’t embrace as Thai people who just happen to be born there. My home country, meanwhile, is an ethnostate created after British India was subdivided by religion, and then when the Muslim part split over language.
What I’m unwilling to do is hold Americans to a different standard than anyone else. I find it objectionable when some Americans attack other Americans as “nativist and racist” for having views on immigration indistinguishable from my parents, most people in my home country, or for that matter, most people in the countries that immigrants are coming from.
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