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View submission: An Open Letter to the Reddit Community
1st born to my parents in Pakistan. Dad left his radio officer job and moved me, my mom, and himself to the US before I was even a year old. Left all of his family so that I could have a better life than the corruption and inequality so rampant in Pakistan. Over the years he's helped everyone in his family to get US citizenship or at least a greencard, ending with my cousin just a few months ago.
Now I'm a 3rd year medical student on the way to be the first doctor in my family and have had the privilege to have taken care of folks from all spectrums of life: undocumented immigrants, patients with more money I could possibly dream about, patients fighting cancer, veterans, you name it.
The least I and everyone else here can do for our great country is to take care of those who can't take care of themselves - too bad our president doesn't share that sentiment.
Edit: Thank you for the gold!
Comment by kn0thing at 01/02/2017 at 23:17 UTC
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I know it's late in the thread, but thank you very much for sharing this. It's pretty impressive to see how far people can come after hitting reset on their entire world in just a generation.