#language-barrier

#language-barrier

Yanfeng Ge clung to a photograph of his beloved brother, 32-year-old Chaofeng Ge, in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday braving both the bitter wind and suffering the weight of an insurmountable loss at the hands of ICE. Chaofeng Ge, a Chinese native and Queens resident, perished inside the Moshannon Valley Processing Center, an ICE detention center in Pennsylvania, in August. Yet, three months later, his family says federal officials still have not communicated with them regarding the details of his death.

I wish I could sit, but if I do, someone may try to take my place, or think that I'm cutting the line,

[He's been] very loud straight away,

I remember my mother exactly as I saw her for the first time: wearing a blue, azure suit, a white shirt, black heels, and dark brown mid-length hair curled with a bold red lip.

Growing up in a Taiwanese American community made me feel American but also left me feeling disconnected from my cultural roots, especially my Mandarin language skills.