It is our expectation of life itself. The outsider expects suffering while we, in the warmth of our homes, expect happiness. Behind the migrant masses lie countless individual miseries and hopes. To deny hope, to deny American humanitarianism and hospitality is to breed fear and danger. It does not make us safe but validates the misconceptions of us. Nearly four decades since that first Christmas, I carry an American passport, as dear as any document, with pride. Each time I return from a trip abroad and hear the immigration officer say “welcome home” to me, I feel a wave of gratitude so immense that I would give my life there and then for the United States, for my country. This is the opposite of exile. This is an allegiance fostered by every single person who embraced me until I was no longer an outsider. Thanks
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