In 'The Good Immigrant,' New Americans Grapple With Their Polarized Country
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Fatima Farheen Mirza's family received an unexpected gift.
At least, that's how it seemed when a neighbor's daughter delivered a bag of candy to their front door. Mirza's parents had recently moved to Texas. At first, Mirza's mother thought the candy might be a sort of welcome to the neighborhood.
"Then Mumma looked closer," Mirza writes.
It wasn't a gift bag, but a Ziploc plastic bag â "unadorned and filled only with Skittles."
At the time, Donald Trump was running for president. And his son, Donald Trump Jr. had just compared Syrian refugees to Skittles. "If I had a bowl of Skittles and I told you just three would kill you," Trump Jr. wrote on Twitter, "would you take
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