Tuesday, June 5, 2018

This is America

Sabika Sheikh (17 years old) would have returned home to Pakistan when her program ended in June. She was killed in the Texas school shooting May 19, 2018 in Santa Fe.



"Sabika was in the United States on the State Department-sponsored Youth Exchange and Study program, helping to build ties between the United States and her native Pakistan," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement." Sabika's death and that of the other victims is heartbreaking and will be mourned deeply both here in the United States, and in Pakistan."

WATCH: Sabika Sheikh made this video to express her feelings about being accepted into the YES program.

Read the story from Voice of America:
https://www.voanews.com/a/pakistan-girl-among-dead-in-texas-shooting/4401020.html

This is America...


Mouctar Diallo came to New York City from Guinea seeking a life “for the better.” Then he entered the bruising world of Sanitation Salvage. On Nov. 7, 2017, Diallo wound up crushed to death under the wheels of a Sanitation Salvage truck. The men he’d been helping lied to the police, saying their dead colleague was a homeless person who had come out of nowhere.

It has taken months for his family to find justice.

That's Mouctar on the right.

Read the whole story from Voice of America:
https://projects.voanews.com/treated-like-trash/