Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
The news from Iraq this week has been especially troubling for Iraqi immigrants here in the U.S., who have family and friends still in the country.
Tariq Abu Khumra worked with two units of the U.S. military as a translator in Iraq. After U.S. troops left, it became too dangerous for him to stay there, and he applied for a special immigrant visa to come to the U.S.
He now lives here in Southern California, but most of his family is back in Iraq. Abu Khumra joins Take Two to talk about what he's hearing from back home.