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Immigrants attend a naturalization ceremony to become new U.S. citizens in Los Angeles, Calif., April 23, 2019.
Immigrants attend a naturalization ceremony to become new U.S. citizens in Los Angeles, Calif., April 23, 2019. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)

Overwhelmed by the number of questions I’ve received about immigration, about the differences between the U.S.A. vs. the U.K., and about whether I’d ever consider moving back to England, I asked Hillsdale’s Sam Negus (a former Brit himself) to chat with me on this week’s episode of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast about what it’s like to move from the Old Country to the New World.

Among the topics we covered are whether we feel more American or British, why we call ourselves “immigrants” instead of “expatriates,” if it’s possible for an Englishman to become Spanish, how long it took us to get into American sports, why the British are so flummoxed by the First Amendment, and why a song from An American Tail neatly sums up the American Dream.

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