Many have fled their home countries only to find bleak prospects in the struggling job market here.
Six people came to Everett.
It's all that's left of their family, as far as they know. In many areas of Iraq, death is the punishment for helping U.S. troops, and the Hasan family made money selling refrigerators and air conditioners to soldiers.
Terrorists barged into their home one evening during dinner. They dragged one brother away. He wound up dead in a Baghdad morgue. Their father, the man who inched carefully into the crowded morgue ("like sardines in a can," another brother described) to find the body, never made it home.
The family had a choice: stay in the Middle East, where the terrorists who killed their brother, and possibly their father, might find them, or accept an offer from the U.S. to move here as refugees.
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