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Sanjay in front of his home in Texas.Photographer: Montinique Monroe/Bloomberg
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Ajay loves living in America, and he says until recently it felt like America loved having him.

An immigrant from India who came with his wife and infant son for graduate school in 2021, he stayed after finding a tech job at a Fortune 500 company that provided him with an H-1B visa. His family has embraced the most American style of vacationing — epic road trips that have taken them to 28 states. Their son, now 4, loves cheeseburgers and chicken nuggets and the Woody Guthrie song This Land Is Your Land, which he learned at preschool.