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The systems that failed to help a refugee family

Afghan refugees re-homed in communities with few immigrant support networks find their new lives especially hard. ProPublica reporter Kartikay Mehrotra joins host Krys Boyd to tell the story of a 14-year-old Afghan boy who took his own life and the federal resettlement program ill-equipped to handle fallout from the U.S. retreat from Afghanistan that led up to his death. His article, co-produced by Matti Gellman of The Kansas City Star, is “What Happened to Rezwan?