In this paper, I describe and explain how three Metro Detroit minority groups (Muslims, Christian Arabs and Chaldeans) followed very different paths towards political integration and representation, reconstructed their collective identities within the American political context, and developed new political attitudes. To do so, I develop a dynamic model that explains how threats, opportunities and reconstruction of political identities in evolving political contexts explain immigrant minority groups’ pathways towards political participation and integration. My model builds on and engages the work of sociologists and political scientists who researched political participation by Latinx, Asian and other US minorities rooted in immigration (inter alia, Barreto, Okamoto, Fraga, Cruz-Nichols). I develop the model based on knowledge acquired from fieldwork in Metro Detroit; the analysis of electoral data, print and electronic text; and semi-structured interviews with candidates, elected officials, activists, community and organization leaders, journalists and academics in both 2008 and 2018. While my research focuses on three small minorities, it is indicative of broader trends of minority and immigrant political integration in the American political context. Muslims, Arab Christians, and Chaldeans in Michigan have followed three very different paths towards political participation and integration. Muslim Michiganders have mostly completed a gradual move away from conservative views to progressive political attitudes over the past two decades. They redefined themselves as a minority in reaction to nativist majority attitudes and Republican Islamophobia, and found a political home in the progressive branch of the Democratic Party. Arab Christians have become White and fully politically integrated for all political purposes, but may still express the occasional pro-immigration or pro-Palestinian position. They are rarely the target of ethnic bullying and their politicians are both Republicans and Democrats. Chaldean Michiganders, a generally conservative community, have become staunch Republicans. Many among them blame Islam for the tragedies that befell Chaldeans in Iraq and were both attracted and welcomed by the Islamophobic and conservative wing of the Republican Party. Chaldeans may, however, move away from the Republican Party as a new generation asserts itself because the Trump administration targeted large numbers of US citizens of Chaldean Iraqi background in its enforcement of ever-stricter immigration laws, an immediate and urgent threat that may outweigh past resentments.