Music and Cookouts in a Tent City for Afghans Starting Life in the U.S.
The New York Times
On a military base in New Jersey, 8,500 people who fled their country as it fell to the Taliban await the next step in their journey.
They call it Liberty Village, a tent city that grew almost overnight to where it is now has a population larger than half of the towns in New Jersey.
It fills an expansive field at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, a military installation in central New Jersey where about 8,500 Afghans displaced by the longest war in U.S. history are temporarily living.
The New Jersey base is one of eight in the United States where tens of thousands of Afghans who evacuated from Kabul in a frenzied rush last month are being housed as health and security screenings are completed and inoculations against various diseases take hold.
