Asylum Seekers in Portland Could Face Homelessness While They Await a Government Decision

Note: Several interviews in this story were translated from Spanish to English through a translator. In 2023, Diana Albarran fled a dictatorship in Venezuela with her four-year-old daughter. Albarran remembers being kidnapped and “violated many times” on her journey to the States. When she arrived, she says she slept on the street with her young child during winter, but later found temporary shelter with the help of local nonprofit groups. Now, Albarran and her daughter...