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Aitana’s family story is a classic of immigration to America.Her father escaped gang violence in Colombia, and her mother a lack of economic opportunities in Mexico. They met in New York, settled in New Jersey and had three children. He found work in factories and she as a housekeeper, jobs to which Aitana sometimes accompanied her.Despite living in the country for more than 35 years, however, both remain undocumented.
- ▪Aitana’s family story is a classic of immigration to America.Her father escaped gang violence in Colombia, and her mother a lack of economic opportunities in Mexico.
- ▪They met in New York, settled in New Jersey and had three children.
- ▪He found work in factories and she as a housekeeper, jobs to which Aitana sometimes accompanied her.Despite living in the country for more than 35 years, however, both remain undocumented.
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Aitana’s family story is a classic of immigration to America.Her father escaped gang violence in Colombia, and her mother a lack of economic opportunities in Mexico. They met in New York, settled in New Jersey and had three children. He found work in factories and she as a housekeeper, jobs to which Aitana sometimes accompanied her.Despite living in the country for more than 35 years, however, both remain undocumented. And Aitana – a 30-year-old education worker whose last name The Globe and Mail is withholding to protect her family from becoming a target for Immigration and Customs Enforcement – has spent much of her life worrying if they’ll make it home at the end of each day.Open this photo in gallery:Some Americans now use whistles, like these ones outside an ICE detention centre in…
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