Brooklyn neighborhood trying to answer city’s migrant crisis

<p>Juan Carlos Ruiz spends most Thursday nights at his church. Bone-white and vaulted, slender and Germanic, in many ways the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn reminds Ruiz nothing of his native Mexico with its heavy and ornate Catholic, cathedrals. But his parishioners do.</p> <p>By 7pm last Thursday night, over seventy migrants were gathered under the pinched arches of Good Shepherd. Spanish dominated the room. Between unfinished pizza dinners, families waited in line to receive legal aid from a handful of volunteer-run stations. Children slid up and down pews.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/examining-race-class-and-socio-economic-change-in/brooklyn-neighborhood-trying-to-answer-new-york-citys-migrant-crisis-07260fbb9e0a"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>
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