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It’s not clear that "The American," the proposed reality TV show in which immigrants would compete to become naturalized U.S. citizens on the steps of the Capitol, will gain the cooperation of the Department of Homeland Security or ever see the light of day. But that hasn’t stopped it from being cast in a negative light.

As the New York Times described it: "Under Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, the (Department of Homeland Security) has often focused on publicity and reality-TV tactics to showcase President Donald Trump ’s hard-line immigration policies."

In other words, it’s being cast as citizenship Hunger Games – though all the contestants would wind up on the fast track to naturalization. But that misses

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