Abed Samadi stood frozen as chaos buzzed around him. Bodies darted back and forth. Yells echoed in the air. But for the sixth-grader who had just moved to El Cajon as a refugee from Afghanistan, this chaos was good. It was fun. It was a giant game of tag. A smile spread across his face, […]
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Mandy McLaren is a graduate student in investigative reporting at American University and a fellow in the university’s Investigative Reporting Workshop