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Grace Aheron has never met the four transgender women from Honduras and El Salvador currently detained in a federal immigration facility in New Mexico, but she's waiting to welcome them into her home.
These women arrived in the United States in April after traveling thousands of miles with a migrant caravan from Central America to seek refuge from discrimination and persecution in their native countries. They made their way toward the U.S. without someone to sponsor them — until Aheron, a 27-year-old activist who lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, volunteered to be their host.
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from Mashable https://mashable.com/2018/06/28/how-to-sponsor-an-immigrant-refugee-trump-immigration-policy/
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