reunited with her parents. [ speaking in native tongue ] >>> well, joining me now are reverend norman fongctor of the china town community development center, and annette wong working at chinese for affirmative action. welcome to you both. annette you worked with the parents of the children. tell me more about their situation. >> yeah, sure. when i was living out on the east coast in philadelphia, i had the chance to work with a couple of parents who had sent their kids to -- back to the province to be raised by grandparents, and their situation was really -- it was a really hard situation. they were young immigrants themselves, and once they had children, the place where they where are working restaurant work, but it was, like a takeout stand. it was not a place where you could raise children and they did not earn enough of a living to be able to afford child care, and so without extended family in the picture in the united states, really sending them back to be raised by their grandmothers was 9 the only option. i think for a lot of newer immigrants, it's really hard to earn a living wag