My wife was born in Mexico, but she does not like what she is seeing in today's America. Her parents immigrated here in the mid-sixties. Papi told me his decision to go through the process of immigrating to the United States was so that he could give his children a better life. Mexico "is not good," he once told me. "More chance for education and better life in America."
He rejects the term "Mexican-American." He would say, "If I wanted to be Mexican, I would have stayed in Mexico. I came here to be American."
