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My mom, she doesn’t want to come here because she said she doesn’t like American food. She likes to eat Karen food and Thai food. She told me to come here, work, study, save money, and then send for her. I said, “Yes, but right now I don’t have a job.

The Burmese government, they take everything – rice — and then they sell it to another country, and then they don’t give no more. If the people have a little bit of rice, they have to hide it. If the Burmese soldiers, if they see — they take everything.

Mu Sipo; 20; her family is from Burma. She was born in a refugee camp in Thailand. Resettled in Phoenix on August 16, 2007.