‘I am desperate:’ Refugee says resettling in Atlanta came with struggles

In late October, Carola Briceño Peña sent a voice message to the local case worker tasked with guiding her through the resettlement process in the U.S. The Venezuelan refugee was on the verge of tears. “I am desperate,” she recorded herself saying while waiting at a bus stop near her new Clarkston apartment. She was hoping to head downtown but was unsure how the MARTA system worked. “I’m not a person that can spend the entire day just looking at the wall with nothing to do. I need to move...