Immigrants who love America

You're welcome:> Another excellent candidate for the House of Representatives, as perceived by Powerline:

Before the plane even landed, he learned the generosity of Americans, when a stranger, upon learning his story, walked up and down the aisle, collecting over a hundred dollars for him and the other orphans to start afresh in America. "We went from hell to heaven in twenty-four hours," says Meas.

"In America, everything was new," he says, laughing and recalling stories of his first time purchasing Coke from a vending machine or sleeping in a hotel. Through the help of his adopted family and the Cartoon Network, Meas learned English and assimilated, a lesson he fears is lost in our current debate over immigration. "I waited three years in a filthy refugee camp," he says. Immigrants must "assimilate to the American way of life, not try and change it."

Today, Meas is the first Cambodian-American to run for congress in the country....