In the last 18 months, an estimated 250,000 migrants and asylum-seekers, mostly from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti, have arrived in the Miami area, often only on temporary legal status that doesn’t allow them to work.
migrants can be in limbo for years, ineligible to get a job legally.
In addition to providing food, clothes and some housing relief, churches are helping educate migrants about their legal options. Parishioner Dalia Marrero attended to learn about sponsoring an uncle in Nicaragua, where many are fleeing“I don’t want to fail him or U.S. law,” she said, worried about how long she’d be required to support her relative.
“That’s it — to unite,” said the Rev. Elvis González, pastor at St. Michael the Archangel, a historically Cuban church that welcomes faithful from across Central America. “They have seen the church as the only institution that can give some hope.” “Jesus also was a migrant,” said Gómez, who helps many newcomers find jobs and decent housing, often with the aid of diaspora members. “We try to help so that they can get ahead on their own.”
That’s the kind of faith that motivates Marylin Rondon, an attorney originally from Venezuela whose weekly prayer group of professionals from Latin America prepares hundreds of sandwiches for the nuns to distribute to migrants and the homeless.
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