This church held a workshop where immigrants and refugees told their own stories. It is amazing what people go through before they come here. - - Donna Poisl
BY PAT JARRETT/STAFF
GROTTOES — When the man in the back of that truck in Rwanda held a gun to Jean Pierre Ndengeyingoma's head and told him to say his prayers, he did.
"Push the evil away," he prayed.
There was plenty of evil that year, 1994, when a genocidal civil war killed 800,000 people in the small East African nation.
Ndengeyingoma was nearly one of the victims. The man on the truck stabbed Ndengeyingoma in the chest, aiming for the heart, and pushed him off the truck. The attack left him bloody, but alive, on the side of the road.
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This country was built by immigrants, it will continue to attract and need immigrants. Some people think there are enough people here now -- people have been saying this since the 1700s and it still is not true. They are needed to make up for our aging population and low birthrate. Immigrants often are entrepreneurs, creating jobs. We must help them become Americans and not just people who live here and think of themselves as visitors. When immigrants succeed here, the whole country benefits.
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