Associated Press.“I don’t even have the words,” Alain Spyke, 26, who fled Jamaica after he was threatened by a local gang for being gay, said. “To come into this country and have a safe space to escape all the hardships and trauma?
Not everyone has that opportunity.”The church’s LGBT Asylum Task Force ministry had previously housed asylum-seekers in rented apartments.
However, as the program has grown, it’s become more challenging to coordinate such an endeavor, according to the ministry’s director, Al Green.The program also provides asylum-seekers with a $500 a month stipend until they can receive work authorization.