Portland is struggling to cope with an increase in the number of asylum-seekers from the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as Angola. Claude Rwaganje of Prosperity Maine tells host Carol Hills that the hundreds of new arrivals sleeping on cots in the city’s main basketball arena face mounting obstacles to building a new life in the US.
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