A push factor that drove Ahmed to leave Yemen was that when he was 14 years old soldiers came and forced him to fight in the civil war. He fought for 3 years and then left and came here. "Yemen took my childhood. They would not get my adulthood too. "
A pull factor that made Ahmed want to come to the U.S was he wanted a good life for him and his family. He has a daughter who was born in America and knows her life is better here than would have been in Yemen.