"I know precisely why I left Singapore for this wonderful country that took me in and adopted me as their own."
We do that.
If you come here legally you are us. There are some people who are morons who just don't like people coming here from elsewhere but they are on par with racist...the most foul kind of ignorant fool G-d ever placed on this planet. I'll rant all day against people coming here illegally because if your first act in coming here is to disrespect us by disrespecting our laws you just don't get it.
You come here legally and you automatically become my American brother or sister. I'd just as soon kick out a bunch of "American" leftest and replace them with people from elsewhere who realize, by virtue of being born or living in a lesser place, how great it is to be American.
Are we perfect? Hell no, there's but one perfect entity and we aint it but we have the best government structure going..at least we did until the leftest screwed it up.
At any rate...a belated welcome to America, DC.