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By Christopher Magan, The Minnesota Star Tribune

MINNEAPOLIS — Like lots of dads, Ro proudly displays a picture of his smiling daughter, JuJu, on the lock screen of his cellphone. But the photo is also a difficult reminder that he doesn’t know when he’ll see his 5-year-old again in person.

Ro’s daughter and his wife, Meenge, are among the thousands of refugee families caught up in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. One of Trump’s first actions when he returned to office was to freeze the Refugee Admissions Program , leaving JuJu and Meenge stuck in a refugee camp in Thailand.

Ro’s family is Karen, an ethnic group that has spent decades in refugee camps, fleeing civil war and human rights abuses in Myanmar, formerly Burma.

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