“I feel like I’m living in a wonderful dream now and I don’t want anyone to wake me up,” said Hakmi, 26, who last week packed up his life as a refugee and landed in Kitchener as the first skilled immigrant admitted to Canada through Talent Beyond Boundaries, a Washington-based NGO that matches refugees with employers desperate to fill skill shortages.
A Honduran asylum-seeker tells her harrowing story of how she fled her home country under threat of gang violence.
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“We were separated on May 16, 2018, while crossing to the U.S. My son had just turned 6, and they told me that they were going to separate us because they were applying a zero tolerance immigration policy,” Jorge said. “I was sent back [to Honduras], and they kept our son detained for five months.”
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“I want to thank everyone who contributed to our reunion and brought happiness back to us…”
“I am fleeing my country because of the dictatorship, the aggressions, the massacres, the violence…”
Edgar (not his real name) had fled Honduras and come to the United States as an unaccompanied minor hoping to join an aunt in Portland. He was a 17 year old orphan…
It was a warm welcome at the airport after three years being separated. For [brothers] Khalil and Shah it was the first time they met each other! Shah was born half a year after Khalil left his family…
