Nice to meet you, Jennifer, and thanks for reading. I'm a little older than you, but I'm curious, if you're comfortable sharing, what your understanding of the amnesty was when you were younger. I don't think I was aware of its impact on my family until I was a teenager.
I am actually working on a memoir about this! I feel that Reagan's amnesty is very ill-documented. My parents and other relatives who were legalized under it are a bit hush-hush about it because I think they believe that they don't fully deserve to have benefitted from it. Fun fact: my dad is a registered Republican but has never voted the ticket, simply because of Regan.
I am also a birthright citizen born in 1984 and my parents became legalized under the same act.
Nice to meet you, Jennifer, and thanks for reading. I'm a little older than you, but I'm curious, if you're comfortable sharing, what your understanding of the amnesty was when you were younger. I don't think I was aware of its impact on my family until I was a teenager.
I am actually working on a memoir about this! I feel that Reagan's amnesty is very ill-documented. My parents and other relatives who were legalized under it are a bit hush-hush about it because I think they believe that they don't fully deserve to have benefitted from it. Fun fact: my dad is a registered Republican but has never voted the ticket, simply because of Regan.
Fascinating. Keep me posted on the memoir!