(Article by CURT BROWN | Star Tribune) – When 14-year-old Hamdi Abdujalil first arrived in Minnesota in November 2009, he surveyed the bleak snow-covered landscape near his south Minneapolis home. Reunited with his father, Mohammednur, who had earlier fled Ethiopia after years of oppression, Hamdi shrugged and told his dad:
“This is not the America I saw on TV. That was all green, with no snow.”