We reported last year about in the U.S. in getting their immigration paperwork sorted out. This week, that issue has been back on the radar, with dozens of military members , despite promises that they would be able to stay in exchange for their service.
Thousands of protesters rallied in the sweltering Washington heat last weekend against a policy the Trump administration is using to criminally charge anyone who crosses the border illegally and to detain parents and children separately. The practice triggered outrage and . The boldest activist, however, might have been the woman who climbed onto the Statue of Liberty in opposition to the policy. Police detained , an immigrant from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, over her political statement.
A 3-year-old Ethiopian when a former tenant of the Idaho apartment complex where she lived attacked her party. A local TV station gathered , who died two days after being stabbed.
After crossing the border, Yeni Gonzalez was separated — and ultimately reunited — with her three children. VOA talked with her in New York, where she traveled to . We also explored the U.S.'s long , though it has usually involved those who arrived at borders and ports alone.
"It is hard for us to get this sense of reality of because there are not many Tibetans coming," said Tenzin Tselha, head of the Students for a Free Tibet in India. "You talk to people from Tibet, those who came 10 years back, eight years back, five years back, but they are still further away from the reality because they are not not there right now."
For expatriate Africans, supply advice, news and a political gabfest that mainstream U.S. media just doesn't provide — and that keeps them connected to their home countries and languages, even from thousands of miles away.