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‘Even the Birds and Animals Are Free’

Asylum-seeker Jeelani Ghulam traveled through 11 countries over one year from Pakistan to the U.S.-Mexico border, but his ordeal was only beginning.

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More Members of the Reyes Salazar Family Win Asylum

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