Mwen te f\u00e8t Ozetazini, men paran mwen pa t '. K\u00f2m refijye Hmong, yo te imigre soti nan Laos nan yon kan refijye nan Thailand anvan yo te vin Ozetazini. Pandan sa yo te konnen k\u00f2m "Lag\u00e8 sekr\u00e8 a" nan Laos, Ajans Santral ent\u00e8lijans Etazini (CIA) te rekrite moun endij\u00e8n Hmong pou goumen pandan Lag\u00e8 Vyetnam nan. Etazini te f\u00e8 yon pwom\u00e8s bay lid\u00e8 p\u00e8p Hmong la ke si aliyman sa a ta tonbe, yo ta ka vin Ozetazini k\u00f2m refijye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
L\u00e8 aliyman sa a te tonbe an reyalite, moun Hmong yo te pouswiv pou batay kont kominis la. Paran mwen te rankontre Ozetazini men yo te f\u00e8 eksperyans paral\u00e8l pandan lag\u00e8 a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Papa m te jis yon adolesan nan Laos l\u00e8 yo te tire manman l ak s\u00e8 l devan l. Te krentif pou lavi l, papa m te naje atrav\u00e8 Rivy\u00e8 Mekong pou rive Thailand, ak yon gwoup anviwon yon douz\u00e8n moun, anvan li te ale nan peyi Etazini. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Papa manman m te mouri l\u00e8 l te f\u00e8t, donk tonton l te adopte l ki te yon ofisye wo nan lag\u00e8 a. Akoz estati li, yo te kapab evakye Laos nan Thailand. Men, k\u00e8lkeswa estati yo, tout Hmong yo te mete nan kan refijye nan Thailand. Apre sa, li te rive nan peyi Etazini k\u00f2m yon refijye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
L\u00e8 yo te rive, yo pa t gen p\u00e8sonn, pa menm batist\u00e8 nan peyi yo. Mwen se benefisy\u00e8 vwayaj yo ak lit yo e mwen gen chans pou m viv Ozetazini jodi a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Akoz estati refijye yo, paran m yo pa t gen vwa. Yo pa t 'kapab vote. Anpil ane apre, yo te vin tounen sitwayen Etazini ak vot\u00e8. Jodi a, yo rann ofisy\u00e8l eli yo responsab epi pouse pitit yo vote tou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This country was not made because people simply showed up. This country emerged from immigrants who came to make it the United States it is today. It\u2019s our country too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yon Amerik ki pi div\u00e8sifye f\u00e8 nou pi bon ak pi f\u00f2. Mwen vle w\u00e8 tout moun trete egalman Ozetazini. Se pout\u00e8t sa mwen patisipe ak sendika mwen an pou goumen pou jistis rasyal, ekonomik ak imigran, paske nou pi f\u00f2 l\u00e8 ini.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Isit la nan Minnesota, nou te goumen pou inisyativ Freedom to Drive, ki otorize lisans chof\u00e8 pou tout moun nan Minnesota, k\u00e8lkeswa sitiyasyon imigrasyon yo. Mwen menm mwen te vin f\u00e8 pati gwoup Azyatik ak Zile Pasifik la ki soti pou anrejistre vot\u00e8 yo, paske anpil imigran pa konnen vwa yo konte. Yon jou, atrav\u00e8 travay di kolektif nou an, r\u00e8v mwen an se sa tout <\/em>imigran yo akeyi nan Amerik la.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was born in the United States, but my parents were not. As Hmong refugees, they migrated from Laos to a refugee camp in Thailand before they came to the United States. During what was known as \u201cThe Secret War\u201d in Laos, the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) recruited indigenous Hmong people to fight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[16,18],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-stories","tag-first-generation","tag-refugee"],"yoast_head":"\n