Dana and her family have had the conversation many times now. Her parents want her to come home when her spring university term in Southern California ends — to leave the United States, even at the risk of not being allowed to return from her Middle East country when school resumes in the fall.
“They’d rather I get denied [trying to return to California] and get put on a plane and sent back home, than for someone to pick me up in the middle of the street in the U.S. one day and I just kind of disappear for a couple of days,” Dana told me this week.
