Daily News | New immigrants and refugees in Philadelphia get first taste of Thanksgiving
Abdullah Amarkhail left everything behind in his home country of Afghanistan — his family, his friends, his career.For the last six months, he’s been living in South Philadelphia, helped by HIAS Pennsylvania, a non-profit that provides legal and social services and other support to new immigrants and refugees.
HIAS Pennsylvania has been hosting the Thanksgiving dinners for close to two decades, said Cathryn Miller-Wilson, the group’s The dinner came amid two of the biggest immigration events in Philadelphia since the Vietnam War — the permanent resettlement of about 5,000 Afghan evacuees in the region following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the arrival in the last nine months of at least 10,000 Ukrainians who have fled the war in their homeland.a bus of 28 migrants arrived from Texas
Among them were Shammas Shamaun, 52, who came to the United States from Pakistan in 2017 and hadn’t seen his wife and sons in that time until they were able to get into the country two months ago. Their arrival was delayed in part by the pandemic, he said.For the first time, Shamaun, was enjoying Thanksgiving dinner together with“This is the meaning of Thanksgiving for me,” said Shamaun, who works in information technology and lives in Northeast Philadelphia. “My family is here.
“It’s good. It’s like chicken,” said Shobal, who along with his brother plans to attend Fels High School.
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