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    Trump is challenging what it means to be American, and naturalized citizens are unsettled

    by Matt Pearce, Michael Finnegan, Tyrone Beason and Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times Jul 29, 2019 5 minutes

    On the day Donald Trump was inaugurated president, Sonora Jha was walking past a group of white men at a work site in downtown Seattle when one told her, "Go home!"

    Jha, shaken, didn't know whether to confront the men or let it go: This was her home. After immigrating from India, the author became a naturalized American citizen in 2016. An equal, or so she thought.

    When President Trump's supporters chanted a new version of that threat against his critic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, calling for Trump to "send her back" to Somalia, the familiar words jolted Jha and other naturalized citizens.

    "It does make us afraid," said Jha, 51. "For immigrants who are naturalized citizens, there's a sense of shame when something like this happens in the country that you call home."

    Trump has stoked racial animosity unlike any other president in recent history, challenging what

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