BILBAO, Spain — The six migrants listen attentively to Mbaye Babacar Diouf, whose own journey across the Atlantic to a job nursing COVID-19 patients in Spain and giving back to the community through his own nonprofit would seem to scream success.
But Babacar warns the men who’ve arrived from Senegal, Ghana and Morocco that he’s no role model.
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