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Edith Espinal

  • Edith Espinal at the Columbus Mennonite Church
  • Welcome signs made for Espinal by church members
  • Sign for Edith
  • Espinal helps church women with quilts
  • Stairs where Espinal exercises every day
  • Espinal tells her story
  • Espinal and her husband sleep in this pull-out couch
  • Espinal's daugther uses this bed to stay with her mom at the church

Edith Espinal is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. She moved to Ohio in July of 1995. Her story made national news when she became the first person to receive sanctuary in Columbus, OH at the Columbus Mennonite Church in Clintonville. Espinal tells us about coming to Ohio to seek work and better opportunities for her family.

 

 

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