On the recordOctober 1, 2002
I am very pleased that I was invited to come and speak on behalf of this resolution, H.R. 522, because I come from Mexican immigrants, Mexican immigrant parents who came in 1910 as children. My father was 9 years old and had just lost his father during the beginning of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, and my mother came at the age of 5 with her parents from Chihuahua, Mexico, so I can relate to many of the braceros who came to work in agricultural fields and other jobs where we needed them in the United States. I have seen how this kaleidoscope of people from different countries has helped us build a country that we enjoy today.
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