Inside the International Flights Filled With Solo Babies

daily beast ^ | 20 Dec 2020 | Soraya Kishtwari

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On board the repatriation flight VN409 were 403 Vietnamese citizens—including 41 unaccompanied babies, who were being sent back to the country without their parents.

When Nguyen was finally allowed through to the isolation ward, her hopes of being able to reassure her granddaughter soon gave way to the realization that the 6-month-old, who was born in Korea and whom she had never met before, felt no greater comfort in her arms than she did being held by a random member of staff.

If Tran’s is the house that immigration built, illegal migration turned it into a home.

We asked around and eventually we were given the contact details of the people who helped Ngo secure a tourist visa to South Korea,” says Tran.

Their “help” set the family back more than $10,000, paid for through bank loans and by pooling the family’s finances.

Despite not speaking the language, Ngo found work almost immediately.

By her third year, Tran says her daughter spoke Korean well enough that she was able to secure a stable job as a quality controller for a manufacturing company, which saw her monthly income more than double to between $1,000 and $1,200. Average monthly earnings in South Korea are $2,900, about 10 times the Vietnamese average of $281

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Interesting article, a bit long but not a word about vote counts or the two a-holes.

Their “help” set the family back more than $10,000, paid for through bank loans and by pooling the family’s finances.

The reason some ethnic groups succeed, and others not so much.

I was on a flight from (IIRC) ~1971 Toyko to San Francisco with about sixty plus Vietnamese orphan infants. A long flight and they ask for volunteers to hold them.