When Naveen first arrived in America, she had one big question, where are all the Americans?

I don't see any American people, not a lot, on the Spanish, Chinese, Indian, Polish people,

everywhere I see immigrant people.

She came here from Egypt with her two kids in 2013 on a tourist visa.

Her husband's visa, she says, didn't come through.

So Naveen moved in with her mother, her sister, and her sister's kids in Queens, New York.

We are Christian, we are a coptic or a stalks.

Being a coptic Christian in Muslim majority Egypt was never easy, and as the government grew

more Islamist, it became outright dangerous.

Naveen, who's 35 years old, says she left Egypt after being threatened by a man who accused

her of giving his sister a Bible.

And he kept calling me to just tell me I will kill you, I will kill your children.

So I get here and we decided to come here.

She says this kind of threat is common.

They take the children and maybe they kill, they ask for money.

So I scared about my children first.

When her tourist visa ran out, Naveen applied for political asylum to help from a friend

in her church.

After more than a year in the US, she and her kids were granted asylum, but her husband

is still in Egypt.

It's so hard, so hard, I need them, they need them.

Because you know, it's responsibility, pick responsibility, their age, they need their

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