In 1965, to escape communist persecution, 28-year-old Huang Chuen with a group from his Kwangtung village left Hong Kong for North America. Denied entrance into the U.S. they had no choice but to settle down at the Mexican-U.S. border in Mexicali (which earned the name "rice town").
黃權細細道來：一九六五年，為了躲避共黨，廿八歲的他和廣東鄉親們從香港來到北美洲，美國既不得其門而入，只有轉赴位於美墨邊境、華人匯集的墨西加力市（俗稱米埠）。