“If there’s any doubt whether or not the American Dream is alive and well, I think I’m also proof of it,” he said. “So I want to encourage each of you to continue to pursue that American dream and I hope that together we never awaken from it.”
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Grewal, 44, grew up in Essex County with his parents, an engineer and a bookkeeper who became naturalized citizens. His parents came from small villages in India and immigrated to the U.S. “with a hope to make a better life for themselves and their family,” he said.
His parents came to the U.S. legally. He is a born American. That is the American Dream, not DACA. Parthiv Patel is an illegal alien and should be treated as such.