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What's the biggest group of refugees in the US?

In the past 10 years, roughly one in four refugees coming to the US has been a Christian from Myanmar. They generally belong to a long-persecuted ethnic group called the Karen. And over the past decade they’ve become the biggest group of refugees in the US. Patrick Winn has one of their stories.

(Image: Karen refugees walk past shelters inside the Mae La refugee camp in Mae Sot near the Thai-Myanmar border on January 29, 2012. Credit: Pornchai Kittiwongsakul/Getty Images)

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