Monday, August 22, 2016

COLUMN-An Iranian refugee on becoming American - legally, then in spirit

Aug 22 (Reuters) - It's lucky that my mother and I were

admitted as refugees to America before the topic of immigration

became so contentious. If the current laws were to change to add

skills or financial requirements, we could have never gotten in.

Hell, I myself, a bitter teenager then, thought us perfectly

useless and was stunned that anybody wanted us at all. We came

empty-handed in 1985, without even suitcases to declare at

Customs. And without any English, for that matter. On my first

outi

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