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WVIA Filmmaker Kara Washington, left, and WVIA Bilingual Reporter Robert Collado, chat with Josué, whose story of immigration is followed in "Making NEPA Home," a new original documentary from WVIA.

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MAKING NEPA HOME: New WVIA film tells of how refugees, immigrants rebuilt their lives

'Making NEPA Home' is a new original documentary from WVIA that explores the stories of four recent immigrants and refugees in Northeast Pennsylvania.

Silvano Rivera kisses his daughter Karoline, 3,and holds his daughter Katherine,5, during a news conference where U.S. Rob Bresnahan highlighted the constituent service that a congressman usually does.

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Now a naturalized U.S. citizen, Dominican Republic native in Scranton tells how he got his daughters back

Borys Krawczeniuk | WVIA News

Silvano Rivera's ex-wife left for the Dominican Republic with their two daughters a month before Christmas in 2023, but he asked his congressmen for help and got the girls back.

Yissel Acevedo and Gus Toribio proudly display their finished breakfast, including mangu, the Dominican Republic's national breakfast.

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RECIPES OF THE REGION: A South Wilkes-Barre spin on Dominican Republic breakfast, mangu

Lydia McFarlane | WVIA News

Gus Toribio and Yissel Acevedo have adapted the Dominican Republic's national breakfast of mangu to their family in the United States, years after immigrating to America.