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How and Why did your family come to the United States?

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How and Why did your family come to the United States?

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1a.
There were two different stories with my family and how they came here to America. I'll begin with my father. At 20 years old in 1955, he had come here, like many immigrants at the time, to prosper and begin a career there. He recalls one of the first thing he did there when he was in NYC was look at a play. Of course, he couldn't understand it since all he spoke was broken English at the time. But he still very much enjoyed it.
With my mother, she had come to the country because of my father in 2002. They both met on a dating site at the time. And during 2002, my dad married her, and they settled in a small farm where I lived for at least 5 years. We moved house after to La Quinta, eventually growing tired of the heat. We eventually came here to Oceanside in 2012, when we moved house from Temecula.

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2a. The main obstacle that came with my parents coming to this country was my mother. There were many  tribulations getting her to America. My dad traveled to Mexico from the US while my mom went to Mexico from Brazil. They met up there, set up a visa and passport, and as soon as they headed to the US, dealt with the paperwork and had married each other in a 90-day limit, Mom could stay in the US.

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What was going on Historically in the U.S. during this time and did it affect your family? 

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What was going on Historically in the U.S. during this time and did it affect your family? 

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3a. It all depends. When my dad first moved to the US, it was the aftermath of WWII, with the Cold War around the corner as well. And with my Mom, it was around the beginning of the first Iraq War between the US and Iraq.

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1. Photo of when my father was in Temecula, 1986. My older brother Aristo is depicted here with my dad and his friends.

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Depicted 2011, my dad and I in Temecula, in the midst of a golf club.