I've seen US citizens always be questioned about their patriotism and their loyalty.

You know, I've been here since I was 16 years old and that is the vast majority of my life,

because I'm 52 now, and I still find people questioning why I'm here.

I'm Mary Hussain. Welcome to Deconstructed. This week, a topic close to my own heart.

Immigration. It's always bothering me as a progressive that centre-left parties in the

West, whether the Labour Party in the UK or the Democrats here in the US, never seem to do enough

to make the case for immigration. And I'm always too quick to throw migrants and more broadly

people of colour under the bus. Immigration has also become a very personal issue for me.

Since I became an immigrant myself for the first time in my life, yep, I'm the idiot who became a

Muslim immigrant to the US shortly before the election of one Donald J. Trump. And my guest today

rising Democratic star, representative Pramela Jaiapal, one of the few immigrants elected to Congress,

agrees with me that this president poses a clear and present danger both to migrants and to people

of colour. He is a racist. Maybe at one time in his life he was willing to confront that racism

within himself more, but I don't think you could say some of the things that he says unscripted

and not be racist. So this week, the war on immigrants.

They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists, and this is why we call the

Bloodthirsty MS-13 gang members. Exactly the name that I used last week. What was the name?

Animals. Chain migration provides a gateway for terrorism. We're going to be guarding our

border with the military. That's a big step. Extreme vending. Extreme, oh it's going to be

extreme. To spend the Syrian refugee program and keep radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of our

country. So that's Trump's horrific rhetoric on immigration, but his policies are even worse.

According to official figures obtained by the New York Times, since last October, more than 700

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