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African asylum seekers find home in unlikely new American melting pots

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African asylum seekers are establishing homes in new American communities and finding employment in sectors like meatpacking. These individuals often maintain cultural traditions while adapting to life in the U.S. The trend represents a shift in where immigrant populations are settling within the country.

Associated Press (AP) — He keeps his American clothes in the closet: jeans, T-shirts, a hard hat for his job at a meatpacking plant. He folds his African clothes — including the blue robe he had shipped from home, the one he jokes makes him look like a king — and tucks them into a...

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