Dean Nguyen

February 18, 2020

My family and other close relatives escaped by boat from Communist Vietnam in the early 1980's. We lost our houses and even our meager luggage at sea after encountering storms or hidden rocks that broke one of our boats near the Malaysian shore.

Now, I can list the following achievements after years of financial hardship and hard work:
* Family A: 4 children are now professionals (including 2 PhD and 2 MS degree holders - engineering and economics)
* Family B: 4 children are now professionals (including 1 MD, 2 MS degree holders, 1 BS degree holder - health, computer science, and engineering, including an extraordinarily successful investor who has been making astute investments for charitable nonprofits here and around the world)
* Family C: 4 children are now senior technicians and professionals (including 1 master mechanic, 1 construction project manager, and 2 BS degree holder - computer science and engineering)

Without public assistance in our initial years, this country would not have seen such results.

We need a government which does not waste time and money on border walls and questionable legal tactics to hurt immigrants and refugees.

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