In August 2001, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that Washington state had gained more foreign residents in the past decade than in the previous thirty years combined. Sudan-born William Deng, 24, was one new Seattle resident. After his village was attacked, he and other children escaped across thousands of miles of desert and spent years in refugee camps before arriving in the United States. He and his compatriots were often called the “Lost Boys of Sudan.”

Here, Deng sits at his computer and talks on the phone at the Seattle office of the International Rescue Committee, where he helps other refugees.

Caption information source: "The tide of foreign-born is now a flood" by Phuong Cat Le and Lise Olsen, Post-Intelligencer, August 6, 2001, p. 1