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In the first episode of her podcast #Hearing, @TaliFarhadian joins her mom Farah & long-time friend Malcolm to discuss how her experience as an emigré— facing the fear of both persecution in Iran & also deportation in America— has shaped her view on law, humility & government.
An Immigrant’s Christmas Eve
"On the night that we first came to the United States — Christmas Eve, 1979 — my mother, my brother and I were what President Trump would probably call illegal aliens."
–– @TaliFarhadian https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/opinion/immigrant-christmas-eve.html
"On the night that we first came to the United States — Christmas Eve, 1979 — my mother, my brother and I were what President Trump would probably call illegal aliens."
–– @TaliFarhadian https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/opinion/immigrant-christmas-eve.html
"The three of us arrived at J.F.K. Airport on Dec. 24, 1979. The tourist visas that we had in our Iranian passports were almost certainly fake; my mother had bought them at an exorbitant price from a travel agency that sold them to us in combination with our one-way tickets."
"My mother didn’t say that what she really wanted was asylum, that we had a well-founded fear of persecution in our country of origin. My mother didn’t know that those words had the power to keep us in America, that anyone on American soil had a right to be heard on that claim."
"We could have been turned away.
But that nameless I.N.S. officer — about whom I know nothing other than how he conducted himself in that moment — made a different decision."
But that nameless I.N.S. officer — about whom I know nothing other than how he conducted himself in that moment — made a different decision."
"Law enforcement requires us to exercise our humanity and sense of justice, always mindful of the demands of safety, in individual cases."
–– @TaliFarhadian
–– @TaliFarhadian
"I remember coming home from school one afternoon to find my mother, who had found work as a schoolteacher, crying in the kitchen after a colleague had threatened to have her deported."
