Immigration Political asylum is defined as, "protection given by one country to refugees from another" (Prentice Hall America, Pathways to the Present, p 1009). Political asylum is a phrase that was most often than not accompanied by dread, gloom and suffering. These situations associated with troubles and hardships. This was a person's freedom being taken away just because of where they lived. This was wrong. October 1968, Czechoslovakia was invaded by the Soviet Empire (Russians) and had …showed first 75 words of 987 total…

…showed last 75 words of 987 total…here was that people didn't mind that I was foreign and poor, or that my English was bad. People helped me wherever I went. I am very grateful with what American provided and let me accomplish. Coming from a landlocked country and seeing the ocean and the gorgeous view every time I drive to work over the Jamestown and Newport Bridges, I think to my self "Not bad from a boy from Chotebor", my hometown.