Your parents emigrated from Colombia and Mexico. What was your family's experience with the immigration system? Well, so most of my experience was already with the immigration system was already kind of done. My mom was a naturalized citizen when I was born. My father was a legal green card holder then. I don't know what his status is now. But, you know, my experience was, for example, crossing the border fairly easily back and forth, going to work in Mexico and then coming back when I used to work on the farm. (22:49–22:56)
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Asserts that Ruben Gallego's mother was a naturalized citizen and his father was a legal green card holder at his birth.
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