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Outlook: The immigration lawyer who hid her undocumented past

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Qian Julie Wang

04/10/2021 GMT

The immigration lawyer who hid her undocumented past

BBC World Service - Outlook, The immigration lawyer who hid her undocumented past

Qian Julie Wang started working on immigration cases and faced a life-changing dilemma

Qian Julie Wang arrived in the US as an undocumented child migrant. It was a secret she kept for years. When she began working on deportation cases, her past started to haunt her.

Qian Julie Wang arrived in the United States from China at the age of 7. Her family didn’t have permission to be in the country and so she always told people she’d been born there. But after fulfilling her ambition to become a lawyer, her secret became harder to bear. She was often working on immigration and deportation cases, and found it painful and conflicting to make judgements when she’d been in a similar situation. She then faced an agonising dilemma: to keep her secret or come clean. She knew that either decision could potentially mean the end of her career. Beautiful Country is by Qian Julie Wang.

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