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[quote=Anonymous]Naturalized citizen here. I have built and sold and built again multiple thriving businesses. I could easily move elsewhere for lower taxes and a better standard of living. Until now, I have stayed in America because I LOVE this country. I cry every time I hear the national anthem. I have read the constitution countless times just for the joy of it. I donate to multiple organizations that exist purely to preserve American history and artifacts and civic society. And once, I really felt as if the country loved me back.

Most people who are discussing this issue are imagining people who don't have other options. You're thinking, for instance, of impoverished Latinos whom you can jerk around by destroying the value of naturalized citizenship without warning and who will have nowhere else to go.

Understand that a very large proportion of naturalized citizens arrived here already very well educated and equipped with everything we need for success. You didn't build us. We came to help build YOU. We did not choose America because we had to. We chose America because this country embraced us with citizenship status equivalent to that of native-born people. This country effectively offered us an adoption process whereby we became not just tolerated guests, which is the case in so many other countries, but part of a family. And we brought all the gratitude that older kids adopted by loving families typically bring.

Look around you at everything in this country that naturalized citizens have built. Everything we have given this country. Do you imagine for one second that Silicon Valley exists without naturalized citizens? Don't you all understand that a disproportionate number of people in the Armed Forces are immigrants? Look at Colin Powell. Henry Kissinger. Zbigniew Brzezinski. And the arts. Have you looked into the citizenship status of many of Hollywood's greatest talents?

If America decides to make second-class citizens out of us, the biggest contributors among us will leave. Other countries are already trying to woo us away. Many of you have no idea how China, for instance, has ramped up its efforts to attract all the academics and business people America is alienating. The native-born Americans who think you are the masters of this nation and so much better than your adopted siblings will find out the hard way why exactly America works so hard to lure the best and brightest from other countries.

We will go elsewhere and we will build other nations and you can have your country back since we're apparently not real Americans. Don't bother looking for offenses with which to strip our citizenship. We'll give it back to you and many other countries will happily rise above you with our help.

I have never been more disgusted in my life by how hateful and envious so many native-born Americans have turned out to be. [/quote]

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