Actress Mila Kunis, who came to the U.S. as a child on a religious refugee visa, is not having any of Donald Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric.
The “That ’70s Show” star was born in Ukraine, but her Jewish parents fled the country when she was young to avoid anti-Semitic persecution.
“My parents went through hell and back,” she told Glamour’s Jonah Weiner. “They came to America with suitcases and a family of seven and $250, and that’s it. My parents, for years, worked full-time and went to college full-time.”
“But growing up poor, I never missed out on anything. My parents did a beautiful job of not making me feel like I was lesser than any other kids.”
Weiner then asked Kunis how she felt about Trump inciting fears about Mexican and Muslim immigrants during the election cycle.
“I’m not going to blow this country up. I’m clearly paying taxes. I’m not taking anything away,” she said. “So the fact that people look at what’s happening and are like, ‘Pfft, they’re going to blow s—- up?’ It saddens me how much fear we’ve instilled in ourselves.”
She wound up vaguely defending the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, laying the blame on his rise and the increased emphasis on anti-immigration agendas on the American people.
“And going from there to the whole, ‘Hey, let’s build a wall between Los Angeles and Mexico’ … I don’t even have to answer that one,” she said. “There’s no point. It’s a really great sound bite. And it got him far. Nobody should be mad at him. We did it to ourselves.”
