The first to travel were those whose relatives had been allowed to emigrate from the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 80s.

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They are a travel agent service, really, that's been created by the need for people to emigrate from their countries to the United States.

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While we cannot assist most of the immigrants today, as they are deceased, their grand children, great-grandchildren, and further generations are here and should be honored for not only the cultural contributions of their ancestors but also the tenacity to emigrate from what they knew and immigrate to the unknown in America.

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This is particularly true of Lebanon, whose 300, 000 Palestinians suffer not just from poverty and exile but from a range of discriminatory laws aimed at making them emigrate.

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