Immigrants should think of themselves as Americans first: Vance

WASHINGTON: (Apr 15) Immigrants who acquire US citizenship should think of themselves as Americans and not the country where they came from, US Vice President J D Vance said here.

Addressing students at the University of Georgia on Tuesday, Vance said he is married to the daughter of Indian immigrants, who have greatly contributed to the US, but his father-in-law never asked him to do anything specifically in the interest of his country of origin.

“When you become an American citizen, whether your family is nine generations of lineage in the United States or whether your family has zero generations of lineage in the United States, one of the responsibilities that we must expect of citizens… is that you have to think about the best interest of the country, and not the country you came from beforehand and not of any sort of any any group that you came from,” Vance said in response to a question from a student of Indian-origin.