It was his only day off from working 12-hour shifts at a Chinese restaurant in New York City.
Evelio Contreras/CNNAfter arriving in New York, Ye spent a week in a Manhattan shelter.
For Chinese asylum seekers like Ye, there is a well-trodden route to residency in the US.
… It’s impossible for them to be spies.”But the rhetoric around the rise of undocumented Chinese migrants highlights growing tensions between the US and Chinese governments.
He received permanent US residence a year later and has gone on to help Chinese migrants in Flushing.
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