LinkLinks City Paper: American Spirit: A Nigerian-Born Bartender’s Trying Path to U.S. Citizenship By Editor On Jan 9, 2019 82 Share In the early 2000s, Frederick Uku found himself in D.C. on an expired student visa with no degree. He calls the decade he was undocumented in the U.S. the “Dark Years,” and points to one of his most desperate attempts to support himself financially—donating his bone marrow for $250. Uku had the procedure done in Rockville. “I was sitting in a wheelchair in the most excruciating pain until I could walk to the bus and the Metro,” he says. “I did that all by myself.” ImmigrationThe Red Hen 82 Share FacebookTwitterReddItWhatsAppEmailPrint
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