Domenico Montanaro

It's not, yeah.

You know, it's interesting because getting U.S.

citizenship is really hard.

It takes a long time.

And I think for a lot of people, they figured once they get citizenship, then they're American and that there's no going back.

There's no turning back.

And for a lot of people, it's a huge relief because they feel like all that work and effort and sacrifice that they've made for themselves or their families.

has paid off and I don't think a lot of people ever really thought about citizenship potentially being stripped from people and it seems that the Trump administration is certainly pushing to find ways to denaturalize people that they don't want here.

Well, I think that the Trump administration is trying to redefine who is American, what that means to be American.

This idea, going back to really the 2015, 2016 Republican presidential campaign, we heard a real takedown of the idea that the country is a melting pot, this idea that people come from all over.

It's a country of immigrants.

It's a patchwork quilt, all of those metaphors.

that had been used to sort of tout what America means, Trump is really trying to set out and say, no, no, no, this is what America is.

And if you're not willing to assimilate to his previously held belief and idea as to what American means, then he doesn't want you here.

Well, we've talked for a long time about what can spur people who might be on the edges to do things that are pretty extreme.

And I mean both sides are sort of pointing the finger at each other with who has the most violent extreme rhetoric.

But clearly Trump's rhetoric has been something to say that immigrants who are here are causing problems.

People who have come from other countries that he doesn't like are problematic people.

And that's the kind of thing that experts warn could push people who are at the fringes to do kind of extreme things like we saw yesterday.

Yeah.