“We lived through the first Trump administration and we are living through this second one. We see the aggressiveness with which the immigration issue is being handled and the impact it has had on the Latino community specifically; our church members have felt frightened,” said Pastor Nilsson Devia, leader of the Latin American United Pentecostal Church in Moon.

In a partnership with Pittsburgh Latino Magazine and Nicaraguan journalist Freddy Potoy Rosales, PublicSource reports on the local Spanish-speaking community in both Spanish and English.

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