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When I arrived in the United States in the 1980s without a permanent visa, a German immigrant gave me work and a place to live. But little by little, the past caught up – with both of us
In the early 1980s, I was living as an undocumented immigrant in Boston. I was a young engineer initially welcomed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to present my invention, designed to replace the use of fossil fuels with electric energy (it was never implemented). I had entered the United States on a tourist visa from Israel and chose to remain there, despite the fact that MIT had not yet offered me formal employment at that point.
