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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

What Next - Who’s Left to Help Migrants?

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The migrant crisis has come to Denver. With no federal help on the way and temperatures dropping well below freezing, a local church tries to pick up the slack. 


Guest: Keith Reeser, pastor at Denver Friends Church in Colorado.


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today. The story of how Pastor Keith Reiser ended up with 29 strangers living in the basement of his Denver church,

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begins with a crate of bananas and one very determined parishioner.

1:30.0

The parishioner came first.

1:32.0

This was in October. She had stumbled onto a migrant encampment,

1:37.0

four hundred-tenths thick.

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And then she came and met me that day and said, Keith, we've got to do something what these people are

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