In America everyone is an immigrant, but some forget it while others never can

Evidence

Instead, let us rethink the immigrant—for in the United States everyone is an immigrant, though some have repressed that truth (and others are constantly reminded of it): some came here by boat, others by jumbo jet; some crossed the border, while for others the border crossed them. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 645

Categorization

• SHARE: The ‘some crossed the border, while for others the border crossed them’ line is a compact, quotable formulation of settler-colonial vs. immigrant origin worth sending to someone working on immigration or colonialism.
• XREF: connects to: Doubt about open mobility led Americans to scrutinize immigrants — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 213