The Washington Post highlights the fact that despite the Trump narrative sold to the media?
People still are settling down and fitting into the American ‘dream’…
Just they have for centuries…
Neither Donald Trump or his people have the ability to stop them all…
And America needs them…
None would have been there had Trump had his way.
In a nearly three-year campaign that has encompassed walls, travel bansand the forced separation of children from their parents, the Trump administration has reshaped vast tracts of the U.S. government’s approach toward refugees and immigration.
But in one of his first attempts to bend policy to his will — an effort to block the arrival of refugees who had been detained by the Australian government on remote South Pacific islands — Trump lost.
“I guarantee you they are bad,” the president said during a testy exchangewith the Australian prime minister a week after his inauguration. “That is why they are in prison.”
Now more than 600 of them are in the United States, living freely from California to Georgia and dozens of places in between.
After enduring years locked up by Australia for seeking asylum, they are making the most of their second chance — finding jobs, honing their English and putting down roots in a country half a world away from the one they had intended to reach.
To refugee advocates, their largely successful integration in their new land proves that the president’s loss has been the country’s gain.
“The resettlements have been incredibly smooth,” said Krish Vignarajah, chief executive of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, whose organization has helped dozens to get started in the United States. “They’re becoming Americans.”…
image….Ataie, left, and Walsh wait for the arrival of a friend at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. (Sergio Flores/For The Washington Post)