The visit was brief, long enough to get her green card and make the arrangements to set up a new business--a chicken farm--in Haiti.
But it was less than a year before Randolph returned to America. This time, bringing with her a sick mother-in-law, she was greeted by a harsh Boston winter that was a far cry from her weather at home.
"I hated it," she says.
Nevertheless, Randolph never returned to live in Haiti.
Upon arriving, Randolph says, she bought into the myth of America perpetuated in her home country.
"At that time, [people] saw coming to the U.S. as everything… you're going to find it here!" she says. "But they didn't understand that you had to work hard to get a lot of stuff."
Knowing no English, Randolph got a job cleaning in Boston.
Cleaning jobs are often the first employment Haitian immigrants find, says Haitian Multiservice Center Director Jean Jeune.
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