As an immigrant, my mother didn't realize that government support was possible, never reaching out for food assistance or the like. You can’t ask for what you don’t know exists.
My mother has experienced what I have only feared for the over 20 years we have been in the U.S. She lives being separated from her family—unable to see her parents.
The newly-proposed rule narrows the categories of people who face persecution based on race, nationality, religion, political opinions, or “social group.”
Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia and his sisters came from El Salvador with their mother in 1980 during the country’s civil war, and he was the only one unable to obtain a green card.
