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Ali Warsame's journey to become a permanent, legal resident of Michigan was long and difficult.

He fled the war in his homeland of Somalia, which is one of the six majority-Muslim countries included in President Trump¹'s revised travel ban. Before eventually reaching Grand Rapids, he passed through Ethiopia, Russia, Ukraine and Europe.

He was a teenager when he left Somalia. He told Stateside that one of the reasons he had to leave was that he felt pressure from terrorist groups, which were recruiting young people to join them.

"Everybody needed to run away in order to be safe," he said. "I was young, there was kind of pressure on most of the young people who were recruited. So if I didn’t end up here, you never know where I would be today."

Warsame began his journey to the U.S. with a cousin, but the rest of his family remained in Somalia. At times, it appeared unlikely that he would find a country where he would be welcomed. After being caught trying to cross from the Ukraine into Slovakia, he spent six months in a detention² center.

But while he was serving that sentence, he caught a break. He was enrolled³ in a U.N. resettlement program, which brought him to the U.S. in December, 2013.

He said that after arriving in the U.S., he felt like he was home.

"I finally feel like I’m a human being again, you know? Like grief, and then when I see people, they are so happy, so welcoming," Warsame said. "And the way they treat me, like despite people having different religion, different background, different ethnicities, I see people living together."

After moving to Grand Rapids, he enrolled at Kentwood High School. There he took English as a second language (ESL) classes, and today he is a student at Grand Rapids Community College. He also works as an interpreter for other refugees.

Since the beginning of the year, however, the opportunities for refugees who hope to reach the U.S. have declined. A new report shows that the number of refugees re-settled across the United States has dropped sharply over the past six months. In Michigan, refugee resettlements fell from 568 last October to 168 in April 2017.

Warsame said that he was shocked when he learned that Somalia had been included in the Trump administration’s travel ban (which has since been overturned by a federal court).

"Most refugees, they run away from terrorists," he told us. "If they ban them from coming here, then who else is going to help them?"

1 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

2 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。

3 enrolled   

adj.入学登记了的v.[亦作enrol]( enroll的过去式和过去分词 )；登记，招收，使入伍（或入会、入学等），参加，成为成员；记入名册；卷起，包起

参考例句：

• They have been studying hard from the moment they enrolled. 从入学时起，他们就一直努力学习。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He enrolled with an employment agency for a teaching position. 他在职业介绍所登了记以谋求一个教师的职位。 来自《简明英汉词典》