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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid lashed out at Republicans as the “anti-immigrant party” in an interview aired Sunday on Univision.

Here's the thing. The people who live on either side of me are from China. Across the street? From India and South Korea. I was born here. And we all get along just fine.

Stick with me here.

On the day when I turned eighteen, my dad took me out to register to vote. For most of my teenage years, I was pretty ignorant of politics. But, then, I happened to read a copy of P.J. O'Rourke's brilliant Parliament of Whores that my uncle had lying around, and I instantly became a conservative. So, I registered as a Republican.

Meanwhile, I grew up in a Southern California of changing demographics. Very few of my friends' parents were born here. Before we could drive on our own, for instance, a Bengali woman took us to school every day. My best friend's dad built up a successful air conditioning business after coming here with next to nothing. Hell, I can't even tell you how often one of my friends' mothers insisted that I eat something wonderful (or, occasionally, not so much) from their home country before I left their homes.

Why am I going on about all of this? Because I'm a Republican and I fucking love immigrants. Immigrants are the people who come here because they fucking love this country so much that they're fine with leaving their own countries, which can't be an easy decision. They build businesses here, add their arts and traditions and cuisines to our life, and produce ME. I'm living in SoCal instead of squatting in a bog in Ireland, after all.

And, here's where we come full-circle:

Republicans like me aren't "anti-immigrant," you fucking Senatorial douchebag.  We're against the people who stick their thumbs in the eyes of our friends and neighbors, the people who took the time to do it the right way and come here to open a dry cleaning shop or a restaurant or invent something new or whatever it takes to survive in America.

You know what you are, Harry? You're the "pro-lawlessness party." And you're gonna lose. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

We actually love immigrants. And we love the Constitution that they swear allegiance to when they become citizens.

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