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As the streets of major cities across the country are flooded with pro-immigration/anti-ICE protests, Quiñonez, who immigrated to Dallas from Mexico at age 4, emphasizes that this movement isn’t new.

His mother, Suehey Florez, immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico “not knowing a lick of English,” he said, but was able to attend Fresno State, where she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees.

Afram, who immigrated from Syria to Orebro as a child, said she was afraid for the first time to send her three children to school in Sweden.

The war propelled tens of thousands of Salvadorans to immigrate to U.S. cities — including Los Angeles — cementing the ties through well-established communities.

Ledesma said his dad, who immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico decades ago, used to sell western boots at a local flea market.