It’s one of life’s dark ironies that both Donald Trump and JD Vance met their wives because of the nation’s (formerly) welcoming attitude to immigrants. Melania Trump was born in Yugoslavia and made her way to the U.S. in 1996 to pursue a modeling career, while Usha Vance is the daughter of Indian parents who left Andhra Pradesh to pursue a new life in the 1980s.
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MAGA is, of course, firmly behind anything that ups cruelty and hatred against the modern-day equivalents of his wife’s parents. Now that racism has got Congressman Brandon Gill, whose wife is Danielle D’Souza, in a situation that’s going to make the next dinner with his in-laws even more awkward than they already are.
