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Ro Khanna defends calling witness 'racist' over birth tourism comments

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U.S. Representative Ro Khanna defended his use of the term "racist" to describe comments made by Michael Lucci, founder of State Armor. Lucci suggested that individuals who engage in birth tourism and are born in the U.S. but raised in China should be denaturalized. Khanna argued that such statements are absurd and that criticizing the Chinese Communist Party should not be conflated with targeting Chinese Americans, emphasizing that U.S.-born citizens cannot be denaturalized. AI

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Ro Khanna defends calling witness 'racist' over birth tourism comments

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