Posted on 02/27/2018 9:40:16 AM PST by Freeport
After enduring countless hardships and overcoming unimaginable obstacles, Airman 1st Class Guor Maker, a dental assistant currently in technical training, found his way out of war-torn South Sudan, Africa and into the U.S. nearly 20 years ago.
Surviving
As one of roughly 20,000 children uprooted by the gruesome Second Sudanese Civil War, Maker’s childhood was far from normal. After losing 28 family members, including eight of his nine siblings, 8-year-old Maker set out on foot from South Sudan to live with his uncle.
“The country I came from was torn apart by war,” said Maker. “It was all I knew growing up, nothing else. I’ve seen people die in front of me, but I knew no matter what, I had to make it.”
During his harrowing journey, Maker was captured and enslaved twice: once by Sudanese soldiers, and once by herdsmen. “When I was captured, I was forced to be a slave laborer,” said Maker. “I would wash dishes or do anything else needed to get by. I slept in a small cell and rarely got to eat… but not always.”
Both times, Maker successfully escaped from enslavement and was finally able to join his uncle in Khartoum after three perilous years. However, his journey to safety was far from over.
During a nighttime attack on the perceived safety of his uncle’s home, Maker sustained serious injuries when he was beaten unconscious by a soldier who smashed his jaw with a rifle.
“My mouth was shut for two months and I could only consume liquids because my jaw was broken,” he said. “We fled to Egypt after that, and the United Nations treated my injuries.”
After two years of filling out paperwork at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Egypt, Maker and his uncle’s family were finally granted permission to enter the United States.
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Just goes to show we should not stereotype people.
Will he be kneeling for the Anthem?/sarc
Did he ever get his US citizenship?
Yes, the article states that.
The left doesn’t want to hear about great men like this.
Yes. Compare him to the current crop of snowflakes, illegal immigrants, and street justice “warriors” our society is infested with. Mr. Maker proudly stands head and shoulders above them all.
I read it but didn’t see it.
notice also his uncle applied for immigration and after a two year wait he immigrated with his uncle. he never was an illegal alien he and his family did it the way we want it to be done.
A GREAT example of what being an American is all about. I wish we had more like him!!
After looking again, it’s inferred.
Other sources state that he’s completed everything for citizenship, but there seems to be ambiguity if he’s taken his oath.
So, I can’t say for certain that he is a US citizen.
Interesting. A slave! I wonder what white blue-eyed devil owned him?
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Liberals may have their heads explode if they read this article.
Welcome to the United States, the legal way.
What a story.
I read in the article where he did fill out paperwork for US citizenship, but while I was even looking for it, I still didn’t find where it says that he did become a citizen. Am I missing it?
later...thx for posting
When I was in a service-member didn’t need to be a citizen. He/she could join our military and be guaranteed US Citizenship at some point. I like that way of doing things.
“notice also his uncle applied for immigration and after a two year wait he immigrated”
It is just for humanitarian reasons like the case in Sudan/South Sudan, that we have provisions for refugee immigration.
Like everything else, leftists twist that program into tool for their political advantage, but it has a very valid, even noble, underlying purpose. Makes me proud to welcome him - a man of good character, struck by truly horrific misfortune.
there is nothing wrong with humanitarian reasons for immigration... the important thing is that he allowed us to give him permission to be here....in a lot of ways his entry was a role of the dice but some times the role is not snake eyes but lucky seven. we gained with this man entry to the united states.
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