immigrating

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Yong-ho Kim started working in Radio Korea’s advertising department a month after immigrating to the United States in February 1990, two years before the unrest.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Large numbers of deportations are one factor, he said, but besides that, some will decide against immigrating to the U.S., while others already in the country will choose to leave.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2026

The family changed their last name after immigrating to the U.S. in 1933.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

To Jose Arango, immigrating to America at 17, after growing up in “conservative, religious homophobic” Colombia, felt like a liberation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

My first poem was titled “The American Dream,” a tale of a woman immigrating to this country—“the land of unlimited opportunity”—and barely being able to feed her family.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers