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    Liberian refugees in US face hard choices as legal status expires

    by Nina Agrawal, Los Angeles Times Apr 12, 2018 6 minutes

    NEW YORK - At 67, Rose Knuckles Bull has had enough. The former government administrator and Liberian refugee says she put in her time working, paid her taxes and now just wants to go home. Bit by bit, she is packing her things and saving up for a container to ship everything back to Careysburg.

    That's not an option for Prince. The 52-year-old has a teenage daughter in school here and nothing to return to in Unification Town.

    As for 50-year-old Alexander Morris? The clergyman from Monrovia is leaving his fate to God.

    Across America, time is running out for thousands of Liberians who came here in the face of a grinding civil war, staggering poverty and disease. Some have already lost their legal right to be here. For others, their protected status will expire in less than a year.

    But for all, there's an inescapable reality - those who have made a life in the U.S. now

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