NPR interviewed 6 immigrants..they pretty much all indicated USA is a mess now. 2 mention Roe

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6 immigrants reflect on their complicated relationships with the 4th of July

Alresch Jayawardena
Immigrated from Sri Lanka
Arrived in the U.S. on July 4, 1991

I don't know if I can really celebrate at the moment. Because over the last couple of years, the flag, it wasn't flown in, like, a friendly sort of way. It was almost like a threat. You know, you have to be a patriot waving the flag to be American. The fourth, I think it's a day of reckoning for a lot of people now.

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I remember distinctly one 4th of July where I started asking everyone, 'Oh, what do you think makes America great?' Because it was during the time of our country where there was a lot of turbulence and there was unfortunately a lot of negative rhetoric in the media about immigrants. And I honestly was not feeling very proud to be an American at that point.

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In recent years, it's felt almost, like, dangerous. It just feels like things that shouldn't have a negative meaning now have taken on negative meaning. Like nationalism, patriotism, the flag, the red, white and blue. They just have a different meaning now. There was just such a shift in what it meant to love America. Even the demand for loving America was
different.


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Salonie Rego
Immigrated from Bangalore, India
Arrived in the U.S. in 2014

And now, all of these decades later, it seems that we've moved farther away from being able to have self-determination, where our lives are restricted ... in terms of reproductive rights, in terms of who can and cannot vote. For me, the 4th of July does not represent necessarily something positive to me, given all of this. It just represents that we've gone farther backward in time.

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Amir Sharifi
Immigrated from Iran
Arrived in the U.S. in 2009

I am heartbroken for families in Uvalde, Texas who lost their children and loved ones. But most importantly, I am sad and disappointed in the recent rulings of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade, which basically took away the most basic rights and freedoms from half of the population, including my wife and my daughter. So this year, we won't be lighting fireworks. We decided that we're going to take a long walk and contemplate. We are going to talk about what we gained, what we have, and what we've just recently lost.


https://www.npr.org/2022/07/04/1109722326/4th-july-independence-day-immigrants