Last week we highlighted a story written by Marina Medvin, a legal immigrant, and attorney, who agreed with President Trump’s comments directed at those who lack love for our country.
A new article from Medvin sheds new light on the outpouring of support she received from immigrants for her stance.
According to Town Hall:
To be honest, I did not expect much support for my position after seeing the highly critical initial reactions to Trump’s words from conservative commentators. I strongly disagreed with the commentators who disparaged Trump for voicing what I felt was obvious. Unlike these commentators, I felt elated when Trump spoke the truth, confronted the Islamo-Utopians, and told Ilhan Omar to put her money where her mouth is. I published the column because I felt the American people needed to know that at least some immigrants supported President Trump.
To my surprise, I received an overwhelming outpouring of support — from immigrants. Many immigrants, from countries all over the world, have reached out to me, thanking me for representing their ideas, for writing the words that they were thinking. These wonderful, grateful, newly-minted Americans support our president and his America-first policies. They want the American people to understand that legal immigrants wholeheartedly agree with President Trump: if you are not happy here, you can leave.
Medvin went on to introduce some of the immigrants who reached out to her.
These are quotes from just a few of the people who took the time to write to me. Italian immigrants wrote about their patriotism and dedication to military service, Russian immigrants wrote about being grateful for American capitalism, and the list goes on and on. These gracious immigrants and patriotic Americans all stood up and echoed, “I, immigrant, agree with Donald Trump. If you’re not happy here, you can leave!”
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The truth is that no country has a clean record, and American history is not pristine. From hanging women for “witchcraft,” to dehumanizing Africans and keeping slaves, to segregating Jews and blacks from whites, American history went through some sordid, cruel periods. But Americans stopped it, they stopped all of it. That is what makes America great; the goodness of the American people. Each of us has witnessed the greatness of America and her astounding people. Africans became American patriots. Jews forgave. Women now thrive. A black man was president of the United States of America for two terms. Only in America can the children of the wronged have opportunities for leadership of the country that once oppressed their predecessors. That is why there are tens of thousands of people risking their lives every single day to breach our borders because America is the land of opportunities, the greatest nation in the world. We possess what the world covets.
Medvin points out that many immigrants that she knows are grateful to America and happy to be here and to be allowed to participate in the capitalist economy.
