Family History: The Effect Of The Vietnam War On Immigration

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In my household, my parents are the first ones who came to the U.S. They came here 21 years ago, so they were not here during the larger national events in our past. Thus, for my family history paper I will be concentrating on a family friend of ours who lives in Oregon. She and her husband came from India to the U.S as immigrants in 1968 and have been living in the U.S for the past 49 years, moving here for job reasons.
One of the key events I will be studying is the effect of the Vietnam war on immigration. Most of her family reside in the states now, so I plan on finding out what the procedure was for them to come to the U.S during those years. This was also the year of Martin Luther King’s assassination, so I also plan on inquiring about

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