Crossing the Austrian Border

Detained in Vienna

"It would be at least three to five years before we could even think about coming to the United States."

"We went to the Hungarian-Austrian border. Again there were people there to guide us. We crossed over and we were getting ready to board a bus to go into Vienna, and we were arrested by the Austrian police... We were with a group of other people. They talked to the Austrians and convinced them we were so-called political refugees. They put us on a bus and sent us into Vienna... When we got there they told us that it would be at least three to five years before we could even think about coming to the United States because there was an immigration quota."

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