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The son of Hong Kong parents who lived in the United States illegally for years without him knowing it is now trying to help improve immigration legislation there.迷你倉價錢While Tom Wong, 31, had no legal status while growing up, it did not stop him from becoming a professor at the University of California, San Diego.His parents went to California on tourist visas in 1984 from Hong Kong. They could not speak English and worked at a Chinese restaurant, hoping their employer would sponsor them. But the restaurant closed.Over the years, they did a variety of jobs but it was only when Wong was in his teens and asked to go to a basketball tournament in Canada that he learned the truth – he was not an American citizen or even a legal resident.He was a toddler when he left Hong Kong and had never given a thought to his status until then.He went on to marry his American girlfriend and became a citizen. It took almost two decades more for his parents to be granted citizenship.“For other young people experiencing what I went through, I would tell them they are not alo迷你倉庫e and that there are networks to support undocumented youths,” he said.“One of the most important functions that these networks serve is to provide information, not just about the realities of life as an undocumented person but also about the range of possibilities and opportunities that exist.”Now Wong is using statistical models to guess the effect of immigration reforms now being debated in the US Congress.The research is aimed at giving immigrant-rights advocates the statistical ammunition they need to influence US lawmakers to relax the laws.Wong has no idea how many other families from Hong Kong have found themselves in similar circumstances to his own.“One of the main issues that my parents faced was a culture of silence around our immigration status,” he said. “This is in stark comparison to undocumented Hispanics/Latinos in the US who tend to be much more open about their immigration status.“I’m not sure what part of Hong Kong my parents are from – we don’t talk much about this. I haven’t been back to Hong Kong, though I’d like to very much.”儲存