Mauritanian Immigrants Establish Roots in Lockland, Ohio

He keeps his American clothes in the closet: jeans, T-shirts, a hard hat for his job at a meatpacking plant.

He folds his African clothes — including the blue robe he had shipped from home, the one he jokes makes him look like a king — and tucks them into a suitcase stashed in a corner.

Samba Diallo needs those less often in this new life he's building in the United States, and space is tight in the two-bedroom apartment that he shares with four other men.

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