Asylum-seekers Thanksgiving

The World

Every year, Russian journalist Masha Gessen hosts a Thanksgiving meal for queer asylum-seekers in New York. She tells host Carol Hills that the tradition has even more relevance for her now with Trump making it more difficult to seek asylum in the US.

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