<p>Some shared their academic credentials, which is not the only sign of assimilating well, but is certainly a well-respected one. Here's a sampling:</p><div id="0f0d7" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="cf8efbfa160973ee2d18c82c6775b795"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1314535493934166016" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@EcoMigrante @LaurenWitzkeDE I’m from Venezuela, Engineer with Masters. I speak 3 languages. It took my daughter 6… https://t.co/TmmUXRx6xh</div> — IDavidM (@IDavidM)<a href="https://twitter.com/IDavidMartin1/statuses/1314535493934166016">1602244659.0</a></blockquote></div><div id="5abc9" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="4e5a106adfe32adca69eab07d2a2f09c"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1314987484716040192" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@LaurenWitzkeDE My family watches football/basketball, eats hamburgers/pizza and enjoys good beers.
Our English is… https://t.co/MtuzHCKHdg</div> — Pé (@Pé)<a href="https://twitter.com/4everNeverTrump/statuses/1314987484716040192">1602352422.0</a></blockquote></div><p><br></p><div id="dfe57" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="6ae1d33e84d331bc3c9ed244c81e4b0f"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1314917637097390081" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@LaurenWitzkeDE 1. Third World immigrant here. Citizen since 1995, BS in Computer Science, 25 years of professional… https://t.co/N0I0VehmS1</div> — Trump was briefed on Nov, Dec and January. (@Trump was briefed on Nov, Dec and January.)<a href="https://twitter.com/luis_a_espinal/statuses/1314917637097390081">1602335769.0</a></blockquote></div><p>One of people's favorite responses came from Viet Thanh Nguyen, who arrived in the U.S. as a baby with his refugee parents. He won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel "The Sympathizer" in 2016. <br></p><div id="a728e" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="dea19e9bdc9ed658e911dfb89cd88e30"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1314809491246858240" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@LaurenWitzkeDE Donate to her opponent!@ChrisCoons https://t.co/p33TB7F4pR</div> — viet thanh nguyen (@viet thanh nguyen)<a href="https://twitter.com/viet_t_nguyen/statuses/1314809491246858240">1602309985.0</a></blockquote></div><p>One person pointed out that the iPhone Witzke used to send her tweet was created by the son of a Syrian immigrant. (The father of Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, was a political refugee from Syria.)</p><div id="b890a" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="8af686e4b6b38a0c344725c21cfbf1f2"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1314768712122146816" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@LaurenWitzkeDE You are tweeting your anti-immigrant bigotry on a phone created by the son Syrian immigrant. Will t… https://t.co/QxQq6tNoSz</div> — Don Moynihan (@Don Moynihan)<a href="https://twitter.com/donmoyn/statuses/1314768712122146816">1602300262.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Another shared a report that immigrants outperform American-born citizens in key measures of financial success. </p><div id="7b699" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="52c74343704cfcb936ee14ebbd8419aa"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1314315837264855041" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@LaurenWitzkeDE Ok. https://t.co/ZMbmQ1ozH4</div> — Alejandra (@Alejandra)<a href="https://twitter.com/aleximenez/statuses/1314315837264855041">1602192289.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Others flipped the assertion around on Witzke, pointing out that her tweet proves she herself isn't functioning well in civil society. And she's not alone.</p><div id="33fd0" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="821957367b9d2d9d288b6d20963a6d8a"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1314960964903555072" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@TomSchommer @LaurenWitzkeDE Donald Trump was apparently born in America and can't assimilate and function as a dec… https://t.co/JNh3NvO9wm</div> — Sally Wynn (@Sally Wynn)<a href="https://twitter.com/sent4sally/statuses/1314960964903555072">1602346099.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Others flipped the idea of a "third world" country altogether, pointing out that the U.S. is not exactly a bastion of civil society these days. (Fact check: Gun violence here is not worse than *any* developing nation, but <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/08/05/743579605/how-the-u-s-compares-to-other-countries-in-deaths-from-gun-violence" target="_blank">it is worse than many of them. </a></p><p>But perhaps the most comprehensive response, which also happens to be one of the shortest, is this one:</p><div id="3c04a" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="cf54f28185a37752cd63b16370fdeffa"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1314670823215685635" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@LaurenWitzkeDE This COUNTRY proves you wrong.</div> — Lee in Iowa #TeamPelosi (@Lee in Iowa #TeamPelosi)<a href="https://twitter.com/Lee_in_Iowa/statuses/1314670823215685635">1602276924.0</a></blockquote></div><p>This country does prove her wrong. The U.S. has long been a nation that welcomes immigrants from all over the world, and many of us see that fact as one of our greatest strengths. Immigrants have started some of our most successful businesses, enriched our communities with restaurants and shops that give us a taste of another part of the world, and helped fuel some of our most innovative ideas and products. The primary thing that makes "assimilation" difficult for immigrants, no matter where they come from, is hostile attitudes toward them. All Ms. Witzke's tweet does is make it harder for migrants to do what she's saying they can't do. You can't make it make sense.</p><p>The bottom line is there's no place for this kind of racist, classist, xenophobic rhetoric in civil society. Bigotry needs to be rejected at every turn, including—perhaps especially—at the ballot box.</p><div id="594fc" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="060762ebfec2fb38e5dba4259c840601"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1314946434714808325" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@LaurenWitzkeDE There is so much racism embedded in your language and your question it’s hard to know where to star… https://t.co/HvGXYDFY1Z</div> — Monica Maalouf, MD (@Monica Maalouf, MD)<a href="https://twitter.com/MaaloufMD/statuses/1314946434714808325">1602342635.0</a></blockquote></div>From Your Site Articles
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