True, fully 1/4 of immigrants, 1/3rd of Spanish or Latin American immigrants return to their area of origin or originating country. Well short of permanent resident or naturalized citizen status. These numbers may explain the disaster for the Tsarnaev family upon reaching America in 2002/2003. The father returned to Russia to get medical attention. Immigrants are typically cut off from medical help; the mother went back also, and separated from the father. Somehow, the boys stayed in the USA and went to school, the younger one even getting a scholarship to UMass SouthEastern But somehow the older brother was not making it. The younger brother in the last year suddenly plunged, failing several courses even as Tamerlan became more embittered and nihilistic. "I have no American friends!" he said even as he fathered a little girl and married an American girl from Rhode Island. The understaffed undersupported mental health system had no room or resources for helping these two young men, (MORE)
that is becoming clear.
What was going on here ? Domestic violence, yet the older brother is still the role model or the defacto leader of the family? Could it be that somehow these new Americans' road to the future ended up like the Harris Klebold pairing at Columbine, the John Malvo and acolyte pairing as the DC snipers, and then this Tsarnaev burn all one's bridges and go out firing leaving this world? Their effort to stay in America was collapsing just like their parents of staying? They couldn't face going back, and there was no hope going forward, or they didn't see any positive outcome?
We will hopefully find out more if Djhokhar Tsarnaev survives and sobers up and bares his soul. Until then we will have to hold off final judgment and avoid "Islamofacism" and "Chechnya radicalization" and "al Queda now in Boston Harbor" talk. Because these two secular Muslims were not your devout martyrs for a cause but a pair of out of control, despairing individuals using each other as their support network to the final showdown. As did those other two infamous pairings of criminal and mental breakdowns.
Your comments, agreement or disagreement invited.