They’ve gone dark: Afghans who helped the U.S. military, trained as American-style journalists and rode the wave of women heading to higher education are destroying the diplomas, transcripts and résumés that prove how they built civil society in the country that the U.S. has left behind.
#ImmigrationNation: Dominic Pham
OAKLAND, Calif. — In this installment of Immigration Nation, student Dominic Pham talks about why he and his family left Ho Chi Minh City, and the family he had to leave behind.
After arriving in the U.S., “I needed to change my language — everything in English,” says Pham. “In the future I hope I can be a dentist. That is my dream … to take care of my parents.”
