Immigrant AmbassadorsThe Tibetan diaspora began fifty years ago when the current Dalai Lama fled Lhasa and established a government in exile in India. For those fifty years, the vast majority of Tibetans have kept their stateless refugee status in India and Nepal as a reminder to themselves and the world that Tibet is under Chinese occupation and that they are committed to returning someday. In the 1990s, the U. S. Congress passed legislation that allowed 1,000 Tibetans