If An Immigrant Leaves The U.S. Indefinitely, How American Are They?

By: John Daniel Davidson

 

If you’re an immigrant who came to the United States as an adult, but you leave America for an indefinite absence to attend to a family emergency in your country of origin, in what sense are you really an American? Is America actually your home, or is home your country of origin?

Let’s say you also happen to be a representative in your adopted state’s legislature. Are you really able to serve your constituents and your district by going overseas indefinitely? If family obligations require that of you, then what business do you really have representing the people who live in your district?

These are important questions that get at the heart of our ongoing national debate over immigration, assimilation, and what it really means to be an American. And as it happens, they aren’t hypothetical questions. A Texas Democrat, state Rep. Salman Bhojani, issued a statement on Sunday that he had left the country “for the foreseeable future” because of a family medical emergency overseas…

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE… (thefederalist.com)

 

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