The son and grandson of parents and grand parents would move from Puerto Rico in search of new opportunities.

父母和祖父母的兒子和孫子會從波多黎各搬來尋找新的機會。

It's our privilege to take this moment and to do the most American thing imaginable, to forge opportunity out of crisis, to draw on our resolve, our ingenuity and our tireless optimism as a people and build something better than we've ever had before.

我們的特權是抓住這個時刻，做一件可以想象的最美國的事情，從危機中創造機會，利用我們的決心、我們的聰明才智和我們作為一個民族的不懈的樂觀精神，建設比我們以前有過的更好的東西。

That's the choice Americans make every day.

這就是美國人每天做出的選擇。

It's a choice that defines us as Americans.

這是一個定義我們美國人的選擇。

It's the choice my grandparent's made Avelino Maria de la Paz Cardona and Herrmann um Eunice Rosa when they made their way from Aguada, Puerto Rico, for new opportunities in Connecticut.

這是我祖父母的選擇 Avelino Maria de la Paz Cardona和Herrmann um Eunice Rosa從波多黎各的Aguada出發，在康涅狄格州尋找新的機會。

I'm proud to say I was born at the Yale Lakers housing projects.

我很自豪地說，我出生在耶魯湖人的住房項目。

That's where my parents Hector and Sarah Cardona instilled early on the importance of hard work service to community and education.

我的父母Hector和Sarah Cardona很早就向我灌輸了努力工作、服務社會和教育的重要性。

I was blessed to attend the public schools in my hometown of Merit in Connecticut, where I was able to expand my horizons and become the first of my family to graduate college and become a teacher, a principal and assistant superintendent in the same community that gave me so much that that is the power of America and I being bilingual and bicultural and as American as apple pie and rice and beans.

我很幸運地在我的家鄉康涅狄格州的Merit的公立學校上學，在那裡，我能夠擴大我的視野，併成為我的家庭中第一個大學畢業的人，並在同一個社區成為一名教師，一名校長和助理主管，這給了我很多東西，這就是美國的力量，我是雙語和雙文化，就像蘋果派和大米和豆子一樣的美國人。