With no room for asylum seekers, Washington state church turns away families

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With no room for asylum seekers, Washington state church turns away families

As hundreds of asylum-seekers faced the threat of sleeping outside Tuesday night, King County's asylum-seeker crisis reached a new, more serious stage. For the last sixteen months — since this crisis began — Tukwila's Riverton Park United Methodist Church has consistently provided shelter to families seeking asylum in King County when no one else has. Until now.