Iglesia Bautista West Brownsville felt empty but for the cheerful chatter of Spanish drifting through its darkened hallways on a Wednesday evening in early February. Under fluorescent lights in the back room of the church, eleven men and two women were eating pizza while shopping the church’s clothing-donations closet. A few were wearing hand-knit beanies sent by a knitting group in Waco. One had found a spiffy red fedora. All were wearing ankle monitors. Later that night, they joined the hundred or so congregants at the church’s midweek service. Pastor Carlos Navarro directed his attention to the thirteen, seated together in the front left rows, and gave them a blessing for their journey. Turning to the parishioners, he offered a reminder: Immigrants were “personas más importantes”…
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