Thursday, September 7, 2017
Houston's Undocumented Immigrants Left Destitute And Fearful In Harvey's Wake
As the water rose on their first floor apartment, Rosa Sosa and her family fled to a vacant unit on the second floor. They watched in horror as it continued to rise, as it swallowed most of the cars in the parking lot that rings their sprawling two-story complex, as it stuck around, stubbornly, even after the rain stopped.
The family waited nearly two days for the floodwaters to recede. When they finally returned home, they found all of their possessions destroyed, and found themselves back where they were three years ago when they first crossed into the U.S. illegally fleeing the gangs of El Salvador. They had nothing then. Now, they had nothing again. . .