Thread: How did Carlos Santana become a U.S citizen ?

Early life : Santana was born in Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico. His father was a mariachi violinist, and Carlos learned to play the violin at age five and the guitar at age eight. His younger brother, Jorge Santana, would also become a professional guitarist. Young Carlos was heavily influenced by Ritchie Valens at a time when there were very few Latinos in American rock and pop music. The family moved from Autlán de Navarro to Tijuana, the city on Mexico's border with California, and then San Francisco. Carlos stayed in Tijuana but joined his family in San Francisco later and graduated from James Lick Middle School and Mission High School there. He graduated from Mission High in 1965. Javier Bátiz, a famous guitarist from Tijuana, said to have been Carlos's guitar teacher who taught him to play a different style of guitar soloing.[4] After learning Batiz's techniques, Santana would make them his own as well.[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Santana {How did his family become legal}

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Could they have been either legal immigrants or in the 1986 amnesty (by Reagan).

The story sounds like so many others we've heard in the past. First the illegal alien parents comes over and finds work, leaving the children with relatives. Once that is accomplished the parents have the children smuggled over.

It is possible his parents came legally, but that leads to the question of why didn't they bring their children with them? I'd say there is a better than even chance the family came here illegally and later gained citizenship through amnesty.

Why in the heck do we keep posting information about this POS! It will only make his hits go higher in searches!

I say Delete every post with his name in it and put it in the blacklist for bad words, just replace his name with "POS"