I don't disagree with anything you're saying, but I'm disinclined to brush over the difference between a Legal Permanent Resident (green card holder, what Tamerlan Tsarnaev was) and a citizen (what Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is). I'm not going to make any comment as to the respective "American"-ness, but that difference is real. Particularly to the people who live with it. LPRs usually can't vote, can be deported, and can be blocked from opportunities that require citizenship.
I'm saying this because it's (in addition to everything else) upsetting that these attacks may be used to create further difficulties for immigrants. Especially as none of those already calling for greater restrictions on immigration is mentioning that at least two victims of this attack and the events that followed were also foreign nationals.
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Date: 2013-05-04 12:40 am (UTC)I'm saying this because it's (in addition to everything else) upsetting that these attacks may be used to create further difficulties for immigrants. Especially as none of those already calling for greater restrictions on immigration is mentioning that at least two victims of this attack and the events that followed were also foreign nationals.