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Boston Calling: Immigrant Faces

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01/02/2014

Immigrant Faces

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Why foreign video-gamers now have the same rights as professional athletes in the US

Why foreign video-gamers now enjoy the same rights to live and work in the US as professional athletes.

Customs officials grant foreign video gamers the same rights to live and work in the United States as professional athletes from other countries. Meanwhile, the governor of the US state of Michigan tries to recruit 50,000 talented immigrants in an effort to boost the economy. An American man who fled civil war in Sudan as a child tells how he was transported back to that nightmare when he returned to South Sudan recently. And, the first Hmong-American to become a judge describes how he used to tell people he was Chinese because he was ashamed of his background. Plus, the California artist highlighting America’s unskilled immigrant work force.

(Photo: Kim Dong Hwan, a South Korean professional StarCraft2 gamer who goes by 'viOLet' in the gaming community wins first place at the Intel Extreme Masters 2012 gaming competition in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Credit: Electronic Sports League)

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