Karina Ambartsoumian-Clough vividly recalls her terror as a teenager when U.S. immigration officers arrived at her home, ankle-tagged her parents and ordered the family to "self-deport."
The trouble was they had nowhere to go — no country recognized them as nationals.
Two decades on and Ambartsoumian-Clough remains stateless.
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