In episode six* of We Are All Americans, Michele Jaquis and Hind Abdulmajeed discuss the increased xenophobia and nationalism in the US now that Trump has been elected president, as well as Hind’s experience as an Iraqi refugee who came to the US for college and political asylum and stayed when she was granted her green card.

We Are All Americans is a podcast series Inspired by the fact that my Russian great-grandfather gained his US citizenship after serving in the US Army and my Lithuanian (or Austrian, or Russian, or Latvian - depending on who is telling the story) great-grandmother entered the US on fake passport. Each episode is a different recorded conversations about how family stories are passed down from generation to generation and what it means to be American in the contexts of multiculturalism, immigration, military service, black lives matter, white privilege, and indigeneity.

*Recorded on July 19, 2018 in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA.