WESTMINSTER, Calif. – Chi Charlie Nguyen, the vice mayor of this Orange County city, chokes up when he talks about how he immigrated to the United States four decades ago as a young teen.
“I was trying to get my life back-I had completely lost my childhood under the communist regime from 1975 to 1980,” he told RealClearPolitics.
Nguyen’s father had fought against the Viet Cong and was imprisoned afterward when the South fell to communist rule. As the oldest child of four, Nguyen stopped going to school so he could work and help his mother and their family survive.
At just 15, he managed to…
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