How one Afghan family made the perilous journey across the U.S.-Mexico border

Shafi Amani and his daughter, Yousra, 3, in Alexandria, Va., on Aug. 3, 2023. ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Shafi Amani holds his three-year-old daughter Yousra outside the Casey Clinic in Alexandria, Va., where they go every couple of weeks for care. She has a tumble of curls and large brown eyes that roll back at times. Her legs are limp, like a rag doll. She can’t walk or speak or chew food. The stem of a plastic feeding tube pokes out from her stomach.

Amani carries his daughter into their small apartment just down the street, inside a cluster of red […]

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