Pedro Miguel and his daughter Jamila, 7, walk through Monument Square on their way to the Family Shelter where Jamila is picked up by the bus for school on Friday.

Prince Pombo Mafumba talks on the phone as he waits at the Greyhound bus station with his wife, Thaiz Santos Neri, and daughter, Heaven Pombo Neri, after arriving in Portland on June 12, 2019.

Prince Pombo Mafumba and Thaiz Santos Neri with their two children, Heaven Pombo Neri, 5, and Prince Pombo Neri, 2, at home in Freeport on April 25.

Mardochee Mbongi, the President of the Congolese Association of Maine, came to Maine in 2016 after escaping detention in Kinshasa in 2014 and fleeing to Liberia.