About 220,000 undocumented Chinese immigrants are here, according to the Census report. Many of them have much less education than the legal immigrants have and are struggling. - - Donna Poisl
The face of Chinese immigration to the U.S. has changed over the past few decades, and continues to change as more arrive every day.
By CHELSEA MASON
Ying Li speaks little English, works 12 hours a day, seven days a week, and has never been happier.
Working as an in-house caregiver, she is now the breadwinner for the family that followed her to the United States in 2002, almost five years after she fled for being a Falun Gong adherent. In 1999, Falun Gong was labeled an evil cult and banned by the Chinese authorities.
Her fight for asylum was a long one. Her first request was denied, and her second application took five years to be approved. But it only took her three days to find the job she has held for the past eight years.
“The United States has lots of opportunities if people go and search them out,” she says through a translator. “Next month I’m moving up to a new job at a convalescent facility.”
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