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U.S.: Migrant Profiles, Migrant Voices
Growing up, I recall my mother hardly being at home. She left for work at ten in the morning and returned home at eleven at night. It wasn't that my mother was neglecting me; she was doing what was needed in order to survive.
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Thirty years after fleeing Vietnam, Andrew Lam rediscovers old family letters and tries to recognize the childhood innocence he left behind and decides to write a letter addressing his young self.
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After seven years of struggle and $10,000, Ernesto Javier is finally getting his legal status.
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Teens in the Central Valley of California have seen hundreds of immigrants detained in ICE raids. These are some of their thoughts.
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With close to 9 million Poles in the United States, it would seem a natural for young Poles to come here looking for work, but for various reasons, they are saying "Who needs America?"
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Host Alexander Zevelyov brings trademark zeal to interviews with pop stars, debates over San Francisco streets, and the identity dilemmas of Russian immigrants.
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Writing about her childhood in the Salinas Valley, Rose Castillo Guilbault describes the migrants, the men who came alone, the families, and one "special friend."
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An online magazine created by five friends in Boston brings news and networking to their community.
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Despite losing her bid to become a city council person in Watsonville, California, Mireya Gomez brought many young Latinos into the political process.
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"We both have the same blood running through our veins," says a young Mexican-American about her undocumented friend. So why can one get a job while the other cannot?

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Meet Nima Argandabi, a 39-year-old Afghan immigrant in London, and find out how life changed for him after September 11, 2001.
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The typical immigrant to the United States and his or her children pay an estimated $80,000 more in taxes than they will receive in benefits over their lifetimes.
- Stephen Moore, Cato Institute


 
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