American chaos fuels Mexican dual-citizenship movement

American chaos fuels Mexican dual-citizenship movement

The late ’60s revolutionized the United States—and my dad. In the wake of the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, and with increasing political unrest in Mexico City, my dad was scheming his own revolution. He wanted to live the American Dream. For a young man from a small Mexican coastal village, building a better life for himself and his family in a new country felt nearly impossible. But several decades (and jobs) …