Jon Gerberg/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesThe widow of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018, was granted political asylum in the United States late last month. “I couldn’t really believe it,” Hanan Elatr told the Post of reading her approval letter. “I said, ‘Is this real?’ I couldn’t digest it.” Elatr, a former Emirates flight attendant, was born in Egypt and married Khashoggi in Northern Virginia four months before his death.
Over the past five months since arriving in Chicago, Andrea Carolina Sevilla’s parents have been unable to enroll her in school even though the reason they left everything behind in their native Venezuela was for her to have access to better education. In Venezuela, she said, she was lucky she could even attend school. Many other teenagers start working at an early age to help out their .
"Many migrants don't have enough evidence, don't show up for their cases or don't have an attorney to provide adequate guidance," said Lucero. "They will be deported or asked to leave the country, and if they stay without permission and commit a crime, they'll be expelled after finishing out their sentences."