WASHINGTON, Nov 24 — As impeachment hearings play out in Washington, high-level officials, many of them immigrants or children of immigrants, who have testified before Congress are being forced to defend their loyalty to the United States. Ukrainian-born Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, a...
Lt Col Alexander Vindman exits Longworth House Office Building after testifying before the House Intelligence Committee on November 19, 2019. — AFP pic
Having displayed exemplary service to their country, they boast of patriotic gratitude for the United States, which gave them opportunity — and for some, refuge from oppression. Following his testimony, which touched on the pressure the president’s cohorts had placed on Kiev, Trump cast doubts on his allegiance.
Almost “everyone immigrated to the United States at some point in their family history. And this is for me what really makes America great,” said Hill who was born in England and became an American “by choice” in 2002. Less than an hour into the hearing, the president erupted spectacularly on Twitter with an attack on the highly regarded former envoy.
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