December 21, 2017

From Vina Vo:

My grandpa left Viet Nam during the war and ended up in a refugee camp in Malaysia. From there he got sponsored to come to the United States where he started the paperwork for my grandma, mom, uncle, and three aunts to come to the United States. Luckily, my mom was pregnant with me so I got a free ticket into the states. From there, my mom became a citizen, filed paperwork for my sister to come to the United States (this took 9 years). My sister became a citizen and then filed paperwork for my dad to come to the United States (this took 9 years). I guess you can call that chain migration but I call it reuniting a family that pay taxes, contribute to the economy, and hope to make their country a better place (because apparently, the country that boasted being "nước tự do" land of freedom doesn't welcome people who aren't already American)