Commentary: Rebecca Shi - Resilience of immigrants is rebuilding America
Rebecca Shi
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Undocumented immigrants are powerful examples of resilience built from years of plowing through setbacks and disappointments. Now they are steadily and quietly powering our economy back to life. Their resilience is rebuilding America during the pandemic, and they deserve citizenship from a grateful nation.
I came to the U.S. from China when I was 10. My parents came of age toward the end of the Cultural Revolution there. The government reinstated the college entrance exam. My father became a heart surgeon, my mother a pathologist. Economic policies in the early 1990s opened China to the West, and my father entered a postdoctoral program at the Harvard School of Public Health.