{"id":20042,"date":"2023-11-06T14:02:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T20:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/?p=20042"},"modified":"2025-10-08T09:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T14:03:49","slug":"tsegay-gebreyohanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/es\/2023\/11\/06\/tsegay-gebreyohanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsegay Gebreyohanes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t
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Pew Research estimates <\/span><\/i>1 in 10 Black people in the United States is an immigrant<\/span><\/i><\/a>. In <\/span><\/i>Black Immigrants Today<\/span><\/i><\/a>, Borderless Magazine spoke to Black immigrants around Chicago about their homes, their lives, and the challenges they faced coming to the U.S.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tsegay Gebreyohanes was in his early 20s when he first tried to leave Eritrea in 2008<\/span>. <\/span>He was among a mass exodus of young people leaving the northeastern African country, fleeing a lack of political, social, and economic freedoms \u2014 and forced military service.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the past two decades, more than one million Eritreans have escaped what they call one of the world’s <\/span>most repressive <\/span><\/a>and authoritative governments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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