THAT, is one reason why we continue to have racial and ethnic based divison in this country. There are still people who automatically assume a non-European sounding last name must be a foreigner.
Personal story - you know what I always hated when I was growing up? The qeustion people asked me:
"where are you from?"
"Texas" I answered.
"no, where you are you from originally?"
"Texas", I answered again.
"I mean, where were you born?"
"Texas", I answered once more
"Oh ... where are your parents from?"
"China", I said
"oh, so you are Chinese?"
To our collective credit, I don't get that line of question anymore (well, on rare occasions I still do).
I have been forced numerous times to state that there is a difference between H1b workers and immigrants or people who are descended from immigrants in many of my posts on this issue. My differatiation is between H1B visa holders from any country (or l1 visa holders from any nation) and American permanent residents. I note also you were not the first to correctly call henderson field on this point.
I also am really sick of being accused of being against immigrants when I am only against illegal immigrants and H1B and L1 visa workers who should not be in this nation taking jobs taht Americans can fill.