{"id":28101,"date":"2026-10-30T18:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T18:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=28101"},"modified":"2026-10-30T18:51:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T18:51:36","slug":"on-the-street-an-immigration-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/on-the-street-an-immigration-story\/","title":{"rendered":"On the street: An immigration story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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[This is an occasional series of immigration stories from Church of the Brethren members and attendees. Look for more stories to be featured in upcoming issues of Newsline. To submit an immigration story for this series, email cobnews@brethren.org<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Javier* couldn\u2019t find work because his work card had expired, and spent a month sleeping in the rain and the cold, without a blanket, without food, and without a home in Delray Beach, Fla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The people in the area where Javier was sleeping called the police because they thought he was mentally ill. When the police came to speak to him, they saw that he wasn\u2019t mentally ill, but that he was in financial need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The police referred him to a Church of the Brethren pastor who took him in. The church provided him with clothes and food, and soon the Deportation Defense Response<\/a> (DDR) Team referred him to lawyers for the application process and financial support for housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Names have been changed or only first names given in order to protect the identities of people vulnerable to immigration enforcement.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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