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The Immigrant in the Land of Lies
Dear Immigrant,
You didn’t come here to hate this place. You came because some mixture of story and necessity brought you: a job, a degree, a war, a passport, a parent, a dream you had no safe place to dream elsewhere. You came through airports and interviews and forms that asked whether you had ever committed genocide, espionage, prostitution, or any other morally dubious activity that wasn’t already in the job description of the United States government. And for a while, you tried to believe the story. You tried to believe that underneath the noise there was a decent country trying its…
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