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Granted, it's a small sample size I'm talking about here, but I lived in the International dorm on my campus for two years back in the mid 80's and the vast majority of the foreign students on my floor had no intention of ever going back to their home countries, especially the Iranian students (this was during the Iran-Iraq war and as soon as they stepped foot in Iran again, they were going to have to go fight in the military). It was right after the Shah was booted and things had gone from a Western type civilization to an extremist regime. The women were particularly determined not to return because they had no rights there. I know for sure that three of the Iranian students never left and ended up "legal" eventually, but it was years of hiding and running first. But, it wasn't just the Iranian students either. There were students from 18 countries on my dorm floor alone and I would be surprised if any of them returned home, because they really loved it here.
The funniest ones were the German guys who thought they could "road trip" to California (from Michigan) on a weekend, because they were used to other countries being nearby.. they didn't get just how big the US was! But, that's a hijack.
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