The United States has welcomed immigrants from Southeast Asia for the last 60 years.

Their stories are marked by tragedy, by the loss of loved ones, of war, of sometimes years long, tracks through the jungle to escape.

Erica Lee helps us learn their stories.

While in Europe, Democratic ideals are being challenged in a few countries such as Hungary.

We never thought that so quickly there will be a certain political power that would want to dismantle democratic institutions.

In Poland, it's become easier to see how authoritarian interests try to stay in power.

Focus on like one major enemy and built on it.

And in Portugal...

The most important thing that the Portuguese are fighting now

is for to have good jobs.

We'll look at the political challenges in Portugal, Poland, and Hungary in the hour ahead on Travel

with Rick Steves.

Stay with us.

As political issues dominate the national mindset in the United States

leading up to the presidential election, I thought it could be interesting to look

at some of the issues European countries have been grappling with. In just a bit,

friends from countries whose democratic traditions

only date back a generation or two will tell us what political challenges they're facing

this year. Let's start today's travel with Rick Steeves with a look at immigration trends in the United States.

As we approached 60 years since the Immigration Act of 1965 opened up the country to new arrivals from Asia,

I thought it would be appropriate to revisit a conversation

we had a few years back with Erica Lee.

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