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How many consecutive hours of Teletubbies would you have to watch in order to be in the right state of mind to cook up that statement, against that ethnicity, on that continent?
I'm guessing he didn't know she was Native American and just saw a non-white person and assumed non-white=immigrant. Never mind that even if she were of Asian or Latin descent it's entirely possible her family had been American for generations.
He was trying to use the ol' reliable argument of "if you don't like it here then you can go back to where you came from!" Except he forgot about Native Americans.