I'm Sorry But You Have to Assimilate

It doesn’t always seem so. Minneapolis mayoral hopeful Omar Fateh calls Somalia “our home.” Illinois Rep. Delia Ramirez tells a cheering crowd, “I am a proud Guatemalan before I am American.” Both were born here. I wasn’t. Yet I can’t shake the feeling that I love this country more than they do. I moved to America nearly a decade ago. I’ve worked in conservative media — first at Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller, then at Fox. Most of my friends are conservatives from the South and Midwest who moved to D.C. or New York for work. I know how they see immigration: legal is good, illegal is bad. I also know how many city liberals see it: fine, as long as immigrants don’t show up in front of their family home in Greenwich, Connecticut. In my spare time, I host events for legal, skilled immigrants — people building companies, filing patents, contributing to America’s economy. Most of them didn’t come here chasing abstract American “liberty,” and they don’t spend much time thinking about our found

It doesn’t always seem so. Minneapolis mayoral hopeful Omar Fateh calls Somalia “our home.” Illinois Rep. Delia Ramirez tells a cheering crowd, “I am a proud Guatemalan before I am American.” Both were born here. I wasn’t. Yet I can’t shake the feeling that I love this country more than they do. I moved to America nearly a decade ago. I’ve worked in conservative media — first at Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller, then at Fox. Most of my friends are conservatives from the South and Midwest who moved to D.C. or New York for work. I know how they see immigration: legal is good, illegal is bad. I also