Location Westbrook, Maine, United States Regions East Coast, New England, Northeastern US Gender Male
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Allan Monga, a junior at Deering High School in Portland, Maine, traveled to Washington, D.C. to compete in the Poetry Out Loud contest in the spring of 2018. But Monga, who fled violence in his home country of Zambia, was initially barred from the national final because of his immigration status: He's an asylum seeker and does not yet have
U.S. citizenship.
