Pamela Bidear plays with her son in her apartment in St. Paul in December 2021. Photo by Max Nesterak/Minnesota Reformer. It had been years since Pamela Bidear had a regular income when she began receiving $1,000 a month in October 2020.
Bidear fled her native Cameroon in 2017 amid political turmoil that left her husband dead. She traveled to Nigeria, Ecuador, Mexico, California and Texas before finding refuge in a shelter for asylum seekers in the Twin Cities.
While the federal government agreed to hear her plea for asylum, which offered her temporary permission to stay in the country, it came […]
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