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Ami Bera: “If you think about my own story, my parents came from India in the 1950s to get their education at USC, and then they…”

On the recordMarch 5, 2019
If you think about my own story, my parents came from India in the 1950s to get their education at USC, and then they stayed.
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Ami Bera
Democratic · California

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Bera reflects on the importance of immigrant contributions to the U.S.

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