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lindsaykatai: latimes: Sold into slavery as a girl, Shyima Hall becomes a U.S. citizen: When she was 10, Shyima Hall was smuggled from Egypt into the U.S. as a slave to a family in Irvine. In Montebello on Thursday, she became an American citizen. Hall said her dream now is to become a federal agent for ICE to help crack down on human trafficking and free the enslaved. Your feel-good story of the day. Photo: Shyima Hall, 22, moments after becoming a U.S. citizen. She lives in Beaumont and is deciding whether to finish a college degree or apply for the local police force. Credit: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times What. The. Fuck. Irvine.

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latimes:

Sold into slavery as a girl, Shyima Hall becomes a U.S. citizen: When she was 10, Shyima Hall was smuggled from Egypt into the U.S. as a slave to a family in Irvine. In Montebello on Thursday, she became an American citizen.

Hall said her dream now is to become a federal agent for ICE to help crack down on human trafficking and free the enslaved.

Your feel-good story of the day.

Photo: Shyima Hall, 22, moments after becoming a U.S. citizen. She lives in Beaumont and is deciding whether to finish a college degree or apply for the local police force. Credit: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times

What. The. Fuck. Irvine.

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    Being from that city, i have to agree with the above. Irvinians, the rich ones usually, are a… kind of their own.
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    Good for her! also holy shit that place looks exactly like where my mom became a U.S. citizen.
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    i don’t understand how someone could think it’s ok
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