Chicago, the city hosting the Democratic National Convention next week, has been at the center of the national conversation on U.S. immigration policy.

Laura Barone Lopez is there and has this report.

All of us is to be human is to face a person to in Allah.

Concord Missionary Baptist Church on Chicago's South Side has transformed in the last two years.

The historically black church now offers live translation during its services to accommodate a growing number of Spanish-speaking congregants who fled their homes for the United States.

Kenneth Phelps is the church's pastor. They're hungry and they're hurting and they're in our community. And you know from a Christian standpoint we've always welcomed the visitors and strangers.

People like Biloxi Lugo, who are strangers no more.

She now lives in a studio apartment with her two daughters,

after spending six months in a city-run shelter when they

arrived from Venezuela. It's good to feel that you have peace and

Pastor Phelps has helped me a lot with that.

Any problem that we have or anything we need, he always tells us to let him know and that he'll

take care of us.

I feel it home.

But the integration of these new members has not been easy.

Many of the community weren't welcoming.

Phelps says community outrage erupted early last year when the city opened a shelter for migrants

at a defunct elementary school around the corner from the church.

The community had been told that it would be a job training center.

We were told that the city didn't have resources to do that.

And then somehow mysteriously, magically, you find monies to open up a shelter.

You just didn't set right with the community.

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