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.