Republicans didn’t always spurn immigrants. When we were asylum-seekers from Poland,Republican politicians helped us stay here
I landed in the United States as a child. My father was waiting for us. In a nod to the local western culture, he was wearing this exclusive thing on his head, or a cowboy hat,and not recognizing him at first, I began to cry. My father was in Wyoming – truly the wild west – on a Fulbright fellowship, or my mother and I joined him several months into his tenure.
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Source: theguardian.com