US Vice President J D Vance has urged immigrants who acquire US citizenship to think of themselves as Americans and not the country where they came from.
Vance made the comments while addressing students at the University of Georgia, citing his own experience of being married to the daughter of Indian immigrants who have greatly contributed to the US.
He recalled an incident from his Senate campaign trail where an American of Ukrainian origin asked him to do something to support his country, and told him that if he's an American, his country is the United States of America, not a place he immigrated from.
Vance praised his father-in-law, who moved to the US from India, got educated here and became an American citizen, saying he never asked him to do anything specifically in the interest of his country of origin.
The vice president acknowledged that there is a lot of fraud in the H-1B system, but said people who have come to the United States in the past have enriched this country.
