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African asylum seekers find home in unlikely new American melting pots

In 2023, thousands of migrants from West Africa arrived in Lockland, Ohio, nearly doubling the town’s population so suddenly it seemed to some that it happened overnight. Most had fled Mauritania, saying they were persecuted for opposing the authoritarian government. They journeyed through South and Central America, then asked for asylum at the U.S. border. They got to this town on Cincinnati's outskirts with only the clothes on their backs. In …

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African asylum seekers find home in unlikely new American melting pots

LOCKLAND, Ohio (AP) — He keeps his American clothes in the closet: jeans, T-shirts, a hard hat for his job at a meatpacking plant.

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Black Mauritanian Asylum Seekers Build New Community in Ohio

Thousands of African asylum seekers—many fleeing racial and political persecution in Mauritania—are reshaping a small Ohio town through work, culture and mutual aid.

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