I agree. I'm an independent (American) who leans left. Those quotes stood out to me too. The quotes to me signaled that the USA is literally everyone and no one

I agree. I'm an independent (American) who leans left. Those quotes stood out to me too. The quotes to me signaled that the USA is literally everyone and no one's country. Just a free for all and while I'm certainly not against immigration, you can take it too far. Part of the consequences of going too far is that you end up with Trump and iterations of him thereafter. That's not good either. The goal is to simply be sensible and only allow in those who will be a significant positive benefit to our society. Yes, our society. The people already here. People seem to have a hard time grasping that the culture who founded the modern US gov't are indeed those people, or it's somehow become offensive. Even a 1st generation immigrant would agree with that, but not some revisionist who brings up the American Indians as if fair amends haven't been made there or somehow a new government completely void of their influence is somehow not the founding of the country. I hope these same people go around the internet beating the drum on east Asian immigration policies and immigrant acceptance along with Israel. You'd think this country is evil and I completely disagree we're as bad as these finger-wagging liberals insist we are with their scare quotes.