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America versus China, the troubling prequel
Trump’s bid to target birthright citizenship has a grim backstory related to the early days of Chinese migration to the US.
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Trump’s bid to target birthright citizenship has a grim backstory related to the early days of Chinese migration to the US.
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Howard Chua-Eoan
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I love visiting California. In many ways, it’s like going home. I have siblings in the San Diego area and up north in San Jose. When my family moved to the US from the Philippines in late 1979, we stayed for a while with an aunt in Orange County. I got my first American job there – hefting bales of newspapers onto a truck from the loading dock of a Fullerton daily.
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