The Immigrant's Journey

In the mid 1980s, mainland China started opening up to the outside world and allowing a lot of their grad students to seek higher education abroad. While they were here, Tiananmen Square and those protests happened. My dad decided to participate in the parallel protests that were happening in Lincoln, Nebraska among the like Chinese students who were studying there at the time. He really caught off the protests in Tiananman Square. So now what? You know, my parents decided for their own safety, for their own opportunities that they would stay here and took advantage of a green card program in the United States. And so we became accidental immigrants. It was the longest trip of their lives.