Most of us don't have the training or the skills to work in other industries. We mostly speak just one language, usually Cantonese, and often just the dialect Toishanese. When I first came to the United States I needed a lot of time to work to stabilize myself. So after seven years that's why I'm only now having my first baby. We don't have any health insurance, and we have to pay the bill out of our own pockets.
Health insurance is very expensive in the United States.
We can't afford it. In the garment industry here they do not have health insurance for the workers. Before I came here, my experience in China was that life was very strict. I heard that in America you have a lot of freedom, and I wanted to breathe the air of that freedom. But when I came here I realized the reality was very different from what I had been dreaming, because my idea of freedom was very abstract.