Being a refugee is not just what happened to you. It’s also who you’ve become as a result of what happened to you. Seventy years ago, the United States was one of the signatories to a historic legal document, the…
I came to America the right way and still was imprisoned for more than five months
In 2018, I was at JFK airport about to fly internationally for the first time after the grant of my refugee status in 2017. The line was very long — the definitive punishment for people who could not afford a…