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This Afghan-American immigrant was undecided in 2016 — but Trump's border wall is something he can get behind.

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00:00So as a voter, I would call myself very analytical,

00:04very logical, non-emotional.

00:06I hate to say it, but it's not really me as a person.

00:10I'm really quite the opposite.

00:19My name is Wally Rezaki.

00:21I'm 39 years old.

00:22I live in California.

00:23And in 2016, I flip-flopped so much

00:27that I actually ended up not voting for president.

00:37My family immigrated from Afghanistan.

00:39It's kind of the American dream,

00:40except we got robbed four times,

00:42and my mom gets held at gunpoint,

00:44and my brother's bike gets stolen,

00:45he gets mugged on the subway.

00:46And, you know, it's just not this kind of happy ending.

00:50When tradition becomes,

00:52you're gonna marry this kind of person

00:53because that's what we do,

00:56or you are gonna be allowed to go out with your friends

00:59because you're a boy,

01:00but you can't because you're a girl,

01:02that's also tradition.

01:03But it also sounds like it's a little sexist,

01:05and it's a little bit oppressive

01:08to make someone marry someone.

01:09Just being aware of that as an Afghan American,

01:13I slowly made the decision to shed the Afghan part.

01:18I get so much grief for that,

01:20but that's affected my politics.

01:26I would love to have people represent us

01:29that were not looking for a soundbite or a headline

01:32to say that we're gonna defy a president's order,

01:34or we're not gonna take this.

01:36I think there's a way our representatives can speak

01:39that will inspire their supporters

01:42to stop being angry and start being productive.

01:51If I'm supportive of the wall,

01:54if I'm supportive of the wall,

01:56the misunderstanding is,

01:57well, you don't want people to immigrate.

01:59You're a hypocrite.

02:00You yourself are an immigrant,

02:01and you must be racist

02:03if you don't want people from other countries to come here.

02:05And that's a misunderstanding

02:06because the truth is that it's more about,

02:11I want the law that we all agree upon

02:14to actually be effective,

02:15which is a secure border

02:17with an opportunity for people to come in.

02:20I know firsthand it worked for us

02:23because we couldn't swim across the border.

02:25We came from Afghanistan.

02:26I actually want the law to work,

02:28and I want the president to succeed

02:30in making immigration feel like it's under our control

02:34rather than it's an issue of,

02:37do we want people to come here or not?

02:45I wish the voters from the other side

02:47would look at my choices

02:49and my support for the president, for example,

02:51as a way of saying this is how to bring about change.

02:55I want whoever is in power,

02:57whoever has political influence

03:02to feel like no one wants to tear them down.

03:07They just want to be heard.

03:09When's the last time you insulted someone enough

03:12to where they changed their mind?

03:13I mean, in the history of my life,

03:15I've never seen someone get so insulted

03:18that they were like, okay, okay, you're right.

03:20I'm gonna think differently now.

03:21Whether it's in junior high school or someone in office,

03:25it's never, it doesn't happen.

03:27You can't yell at someone enough to change their mind.

03:30Don't listen to me.

03:30Listen to Gandhi.

03:32Listen to Martin Luther King.

03:33Listen to Jesus Christ.

03:46Here's what I would change about politics.

03:47I would ask that people,

03:50not just the politicians, but the voters themselves,

03:53be able to comfortably and openly express

03:57where their moral compass is rooted in,

04:00like how they came about those values of,

04:02I believe in that we shouldn't kill animals,

04:05and I believe that a woman has a right to choose.

04:08I mean, whatever they are, whatever the views are,

04:11where does it stem from?

04:13Does it come from a religious sort of culture?

04:15Does it come from a biblical place?

04:18Does it come from what your parents have taught you?

04:22But sort of always getting to the root of it.

04:24There's always some sort of moral code,

04:26but if you don't actually understand

04:27what your moral code is,

04:29then you're essentially fighting for things

04:31and not really sure why.

Undecided in 2016 — but likes the wall

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