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A Conversation with NYC's Newest Americans
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JESSICA'S STORY
Country of origin?
Peru
Why did you leave Peru?
Our family started to be extorted and threatened with death by foreign criminal organization and we had to escape the country to save our lives.
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MCKINLEY'S STORY
Country of origin?
Haiti
Why did you leave Haiti?
I left my home country because I needed a better life for myself, to be someone in the future.
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HUI LI'S STORY
Country of origin?
China
Why did you leave China?
I left my country and moved to New York because I got married, and my husband lived in the U.S.
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NAGELA'S STORY
Country of origin?
Haiti
Why did you leave Haiti?
To join my sister.
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