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1 week ago | sunjournal.com | Dari Alpi |Morgan Womack |Emily Allen

Gratien Milandou-Wamba thought he’d done everything right. The 32-year-old said he fled from the Republic of the Congo after being tortured and threatened in prison over his connection to an opposition party. So, he decided to leave behind his home in Brazzaville, his family and his career as a firefighter. “I was not living like a normal person,” Milandou-Wamba said. “I was hiding myself.”He arrived in the United States in May 2023, got a tourist visa and started to apply for asylum.