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Safi Wakusolela s voice took on a preacher s cadence as she recounted the long, fraught journey away from her home country, the violence-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo.
She first lived in a destitute refugee camp in Tanzania before eventually making it to the United States.
Both a gospel preacher and singer, Wakusolela compared the difference in her life between the camp and Missoula as a transition from death to a miracle resurrection.
I have become human again, she said. I feel like I m now free, open. I live with my family.
Her transformation may become more common as the United States changes its policy toward immigrants. President Joe Biden has proposed allowing more than 10 times as many refugees fleeing violence to resettle here as former President Donald Trump did last year.  ....

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