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How & why did my family come to the USA?

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How & why did my family come to the USA?

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From my mother's side, her family wanted to find freedom from communism in Vietnam. Her family came to America by airplane, since her father worked with the military as a professor at a military college. They flew from Saigon, Vietnam to Japan and finally to LA in the United States of America.

According to my father, his family was taken away their freedom from communists and came to the US for a better future for his family and future children. He came to the US in a small, old fishing boat with many dangers on the way here. He started in Saigon, Vietnam and to SE Indonesia and stayed at a refugee camp, he then took another boat to Singapore, and then took and airplane to Hong Kong, and then finally to Tucson, AZ in the United States.

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What were some obstacles my family faced?

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What were some obstacles my family faced?

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On my mother's side of the family, they were very worried and questioned their survival and if they would make it safely to the US, and how would they be able to survive in the US? Since her father worked with the military, when the communists came he was taken to jail, making her mother have to raise 4 kids alone. When they came to America there was a language barrier since the only spoke Vietnamese and were now put in a new environment and had to go back to school to learn English.

The obstacles my father faced was when he was leaving Vietnam on the small fishing boat there were many dangers like strong storms and pirates. The people on the boat also had little fuel(for only a one way trip), food, and water, making them have to depend on their luck. When my father got the the refugee camps he had to make sure that he fit the criteria of coming to the US. As well as my mother's family there was also a language barrier and he had to learn many things again. But one thing my father didn't have that helped my mother's family was there was no close family that her could contact in the US to help him adjust to America.

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What was going on historically in the US at that time that affected my family?

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What was going on historically in the US at that time that affected my family?

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When my mother's family came to the US she had to face the 19991 Sierra Madre Earthquake for the 1st month of living in the US.

When my father came to the US there was an HIV pandemic with no cure. There was also illegal immigrants joining the US at the time and it mixed them up with legal refugees and this caused my dad to not get the help they offered, to help him settled in the US.