Hell to Heartland: 'I am Anfa'
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Hell to Heartland: 'I am Anfa'
http://kstp.com/news/hell-to-heartland-st-cloud-mother-longs-to-see-daughter-anfa-in-dadaab-refugee-camp/4469084/?cat=1
May 01, 2017 10:34 PM
.......................5 EYEWITNESS NEWS took a message from Fahmo to her daughter, living in the land of broken dreams and last resorts, where the desperate breathe and die. It's an open prison called Dadaab. Children like Fahmo's daughter Anfa make up the majority of refugees there.
The ties that bind her are broken.
"It's really painful, it's really painful," Fahmo said.
She, her husband and their sons were approved for refugee status to the U.S. almost three years ago.
"As we were waiting for the flight, Anfa was born," Fahmo said.
Anfa didn't have refugee status; she was just days old.
The U.S. requires refugees to go through an extreme vetting and security process. They have to interview with a U.S. immigration officer. Anfa obviously couldn't give an interview. Fahmo had a choice: She could come to the U.S. and find a pathway to bring her child and her parents to freedom, or she could give up her refugee status in the U.S. and raise her family in a cage of misery..........................
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