For Chebwa Mutombo, the journey to find a new place to call home has been 22 years long. Born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the 49-year-old mother of three stood on the grassy West Lawn of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, ground once leveled by the hands of African slaves. She raised her own right hand, and under the baking sun of the Fourth of July, swore allegiance to the United States of America.
