Posobiec's point is that a congressman born in New Delhi doesn't get to say what America is. The great irony is that in 1924 nobody in Congress thought a Polish name like Posobiec got a say either. Same with Ricciardella. The Immigration Act of 1924 was written to keep more of them out. My family Americanized the pronunciation and kept it that way, and it still took generations and intermarriage for the family to catch up to the name. We didn’t stop being Italian-American. We became American. Whether an immigrant assimilated is a fair question. But Posobiec skipped it and went straight to the name. Maybe his family assimilated so completely that he mistakes the nativism his own ancestors overcame for something authentically American.