‘A moment that almost didn’t happen’: St. Paul man with cancer becomes citizen at home
Myat and Paw are Karen, an ethnic minority from Burma, also called Myanmar. They, along with more than 10,000 Karen refugees, settled in Minnesota after fleeing a violent and oppressive military regime at home.
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Federal Judge Donovan Frank, right, administers the Naturalization Oath to Aung Myat, far left, and his wife Bway Paw while their son Way Htoo holds a phone with a Karen translator on the line in St. Paul on Friday, Jan. 15. The family of Karen refugees came to the United States from Burma in 2013, and were able to be naturalized in their own home due to Myat s late-stage cancer. Evan Frost / MPR News