Area faith communities host asylum seekers as border shelters reach capacity

“Does it snow here in December?” she asks me, sitting in the shade of a tree outside a Denver church on an 80-degree June day.

“Yes,” I tell her, through an interpreter. “Sometimes it snows an inch, other times feet. It snowed recently in May.”

Her eyes get big. “Does it snow everywhere in the U.S.?” she asks. “Does it snow in Arkansas?”

“She” is a mother from Central America. It’s been 21 days since she left home, traveling with her 5-year-old son. She doesn’t want to be named, or to talk about which country she’s from. She doesn’t want to say anything that could compromise her asylum case.

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