American Civic Association: 70 years of helping people reach The American Dream

The American Civic Association helps about 100 people a month with their requests about immigration issues. They have been doing this for 70 years and will continue their work. - - Donna Poisl

BY GEORGE BASLER

BINGHAMTON -- Andrew Baranoski doesn't want to talk about April 3.

What the executive director of the American Civic Association wants to talk about are people such as Farhad Ali, who came to Binghamton from Iraq in November seeking safety for himself and his family after working as a translator with the United States Army.

Or Steve Chanthavong, who fled Laos in 1986, along with his family, to escape Communist rule and lived for 11 months in a refugee camp before coming to Broome County.
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