What Kamala Harris' Indian roots reveal about the US

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When Shyamala Gopalan first came to the United States, there were only around 12,000 Indian immigrants living here.

It was 1958, seven years before a new law would transform the US immigration system and fundamentally change the face of the nation.
By 2018, there were nearly 2.7 million Indian immigrants living in the US. And now, Gopalan's daughter, Sen. Kamala Harris, is the first Indian American on a major party's presidential ticket.
Harris is the daughter of immigrants -- her mother from India and her father from Jamaica. Her vice presidential nomination marks a milestone and highlights a major demographic shift in the US in recent decades, as more immigrants began arriving from non-European countries.


https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/22/us/kamala-harris-indian-americans/index.html
 
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