My best friends mother and father were both born in Poland, as was her older brother. While her mom was pregnant with her second brother her mother, father and her brothers moved to The United States This was about 25 years ago during the late 1980’s. When her mother got here they bought her dream house and she became an accountant. This changed all of their lives dramatically. Instead of living on a farm like her mother was used to they were not in New York were opportunities are endless. However as I read in the Binders article during the 1980s and 1990’s there was a majority of chinese immigrants.
Also my mother was born in the United States but spent a majority of her life in Puerto Rico where my grandmother is from an where she lives to today. Nothing special really happened to my family but I’m pretty sure my grandma was part of the 1960’s Puerto Rican immigration wave or perhaps a little before. It’s funny to me how we learn about immigration in class but we don’t completely realize how many people we know that are immigrants.
