Meagan Redman,Jake Lefferman, Zach Fannin, and Libby Cathey, ABC News(HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, N.M.) Thousands of miles away from her native Afghanistan, Laila finds relief in small comforts like a warm meal inside a makeshift tent camp in a desert in New Mexico. Laila, whose name has been changed for safety concerns, is among thousands of Afghan refugees who have found a temporary home cycling through the "Aman Omid Village" on Holloman Air Force Base, one of several military installations in the U.S. designated to provide housing to Afghan refugees while they transition into more permanent homes. The camp's name which is in Dari an Afghan dialect expresses what they are searching for in the United States: peace and hope. Watch the full story on "Nightline" TONIGHT at 12 p.m. ET on ABC. "The first very important thing about the camp that I and everyone else here likes is the safety that they are giving us," Laila told ABC News "Nightline&q
ABC News "Nightline" Co-Anchor Juju Chang follows the story of Laila, among some 76,000 Afghans evacuated to the U.S. since last summer and resettling as a refugee.
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Holloman Air Force Base is the first Afghan evacuee processing location Undersecretary of the Air Force Gina Ortiz Jones has visited since she took in office in July 2021.
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