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Elya Baskin, an actor featuring in the top-rated feature film “Reagan,” speaking about the significance of Ronald Reagan’s presidency and politics, particularly for immigrants:
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“I came here almost 50 years ago, before President Reagan took office,… I thought I came to paradise initially, but then Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter took away the paradise… The idea of coming to America suddenly became less appealing… Under Carter, the Shah was betrayed, the hostage issue, and inflation was everywhere… I thought maybe the wrong decision was made as I came here. Things were getting worse and wanted to leave. But come Reagan, and everything seems to change… It means life will be better”…
