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How and why did my family come to the United States

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How and why did my family come to the United States

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My family has not been here for a bunch of generations...My great Grandma and Grandpa from my Grandpa's side lived in Yurimaguas, a town in Peru. They actually owned a bunch of property there that my family still owned until my grandpa died and the land was distributed to his brothers. My Grandma and Grandpa met when my Grandma was 20, she was studying psychology and he was her professor(he was 25) they dated for 8 months and she became pregnant with my Uncle so they made the decision to get married and moved to the Amazons. My grandpa and Grandma had my Uncle and my Mom in LA then went back to Peru. That is where they stayed for most of my Uncle's childhood up until he was 15. My Grandpa's partner at his clinic messed up his company by many illegal money transfers that he used my Grandpa's company for. To avoid further legal allegations they left Peru and moved to Mexicali where my Grandma's family lived.

Now when I officially moved to the United States was when my Mom went to college at SDSU. By then I officially started school in the US when I was 6. We have stayed here ever since with my family around different parts of Mexico.

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What was going on historically in the U.S during this time and did it affect my family.

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What was going on historically in the U.S during this time and did it affect my family.

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Well at the time when my Grandparents left Peru, the year was 1998. The only historical even happening during this time was when Bill Clinton was caught up in a scandal resulting in his impeachment by the United States House of Representatives. Obviously this didn't affect my family. An actual historical even that did affect my family when in Peru was terrorist attacks in Peru. The terrorist group was called The Shining Path which lasted from the mid 80's up until the mid 90's, an estimation. Because there was many bombings there was a lot of stories my family told about the windows breaking because of the force and their roofs literally being blown off.

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Obstacles that my family met was the legal issue in the first place that forced them to leave Peru. Later when my Uncle was 25 he resolved the issue when he returned back to Peru because the allegations were not true. Of course she other struggles was moving all the way from Peru to Mexicali. It was a hard thing to get used to and my Uncle being the oldest had the hardest time adjusting. He didn't even talk after they moved until around 16 and they moved to Mexicali when he was 14. Peruvians also had different accents than the ones in Peru and a couple different words than traditional Spanish so for my mom and uncle they had a hard time adjusting as kids thought their accent was weird. Financially they had no trouble, just a hard time to adjust to somewhere completely new.