Ro Khanna: “Reject … Heritage Americans,” Give Illegal Aliens Citizenship, Abolish ICE

U.S. Representative Ro Khanna, who represented himself as America First and an honest Democrat for his opposition to the war against Iran and partnership with outgoing GOP Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky on the Epstein Files, has pulled off his mask.

The California leftist told a gathering of Democratic worthies they must oppose “Heritage Americans” and abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the latter a policy proposal that at one time only the most leftist Democrats had proposed. Another idea: Give illegal aliens citizenship.

As well, after his election, Khanna said “DEI is back,” meaning “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” the antiwhite policy of pushing minorities into positions for which they are not qualified.

Khanna and Massie

Khanna appeared to be something of a different Democrat when he teamed up with Massie — whose seat the Israel Lobby purchased for his primary opponent, Representative-elect Ed Gallrein — on Epstein and the Iran War.

The pair vowed to draft articles of impeachment against then-U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi because the Justice Department did not fully release the Epstein Files, as required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

A week before President Donald Trump went to war against Iran on behalf of Israel, Khanna announced on X that he and Massie would force a vote on a war powers resolution. The pair introduced such a resolution in June.

“America First means Congress First on matters of war and peace,” Khanna said on the House floor.

“No president should be able to bypass Congress’s constitutional authority over matters of war,” he said:

The American people do not want to be dragged into another disastrous conflict in the Middle East.

On other points, Khanna is a typical Democrat. He wants “free” child care subsidized by federal taxpayers, for instance, and called for the usual statist, unconstitutional policies on November 13 at the Democrats’ “What’s Next” pow wow in Denver, Colorado.

No More “Heritage Americans”

While Khanna has always been something of a conventional Democrat, burbling the usual, boilerplate nonsense, his remarks about “Heritage Americans” went viral on X, with good reason. He attacked the Americans whose ancestors settled and created the country.

Khanna is the son of Indian immigrants, as U.S. News & World Report explained in its July 2019 hymn to “America’s Patriots” who are “U.S. Immigrants.”

“Khanna learned a lot from immigrants — who just happened to be his parents,” the outlet gushed:

Khanna, born in Philadelphia during America’s bicentennial, is the son of Indian immigrants who came to this country to build a better life for their children. Early on, Khanna says, his parents made clear what his obligations were as a first-generation American-born citizen.

They said, “You were born in America — don’t mess it up. You won the lottery,” Khanna recalls. …

As a second-term member of Congress, Khanna is naturally drawn into the political battle over immigrants: How many should be let in and under what circumstances? What can be done to make sure people arriving at the border are treated humanely? How should the federal and state governments handle immigrants — whether it’s making education and services understandable to non-English speakers, or ensuring immigrants follow the law when it comes to their legal presence here?

But as a deeply politically divided nation celebrates another Independence Day holiday, Khanna adds, “Lost in that conversation is the focus on the things so many immigrants bring, a sense of real duty to contribute. So many immigrant families I know say, ‘I owe everything I have to America.’”

He apparently doesn’t think he owes anything to “Heritage Americans” — those who trace their roots to the English and other settlers who built the country, fought in its war for independence, wrote its primordial laws, and settled the American West, including California.

Khanna explained what being a modern American means. “It means rejecting this idea of Heritage Americans and not being afraid of saying clearly and unequivocally, ‘We are proud of immigrants in this country,’” he said:

We stand for citizenship for those who are undocumented and who live by our rules. And yes, we will abolish ICE.

By definition, the “undocumented” — meaning illegal aliens — don’t “live by our rules.” Otherwise, they wouldn’t be “undocumented.”

Promoting Open Borders, DEI

Khanna also wants the borders open to his Indian countrymen.

The reason: Of the 406,348 H-1B visas issued in fiscal 2025, Indians collected 283,772, or 69.8 percent, federal data show. Indeed, as LayoffHedge reported, Khanna’s District 17 is No. 1 nationwide in H-1B filings.

Abolishing ICE is a radical proposal first embraced only by the craziest Democrat leftists — one of them an anchor baby — that is now, apparently, mainstream Democratic thinking.

Critics pounced on the ungrateful Indian.

“Ro Khanna exemplifies the Paperwork American mentality,” commentator Chad Crowley wrote on X: 

fiercely protective of non-White immigrants while openly hostile to the ancestral heritage of native-born, English-speaking White Americans whose forebears founded and built this country.

Another furious American is Ben Crenshaw, who bills himself as a “13th generation Heritage American.”

He summarized Khanna’s remarks:

We will make illegal aliens citizens, we will abolish your ability to control your own borders and sovereignty, and we will humiliate and dispossess old stock America[n]s. No, we won’t assimilate, actually.

Then Crenshaw noted:

No Ellis Islander would have said such preposterous things.

These new “immigrants” are invaders, colonizers, and looters. And they’re going to gaslight you into thinking America is not your heritage but theirs — until they consolidate enough power to rule you as petty tyrants.

“‘Heritage Americans’ are the standard by which you are to assimilate,” Ronald Dodson wrote: 

That assimilation is what you clearly reject.

On Election Day, Khanna also informed his followers that DEI, which President Trump ordered abolished, has returned.

“Tonight DEI is back as America celebrates diversity and inclusion,” he wrote on X:

Likely 3 black Governors, the first Latina Governor in Texas, the first Muslim American Senator, the first gay Senator.