At the nation's only Latino mosque, Trump's immigration policies have 'changed everything'
Centro Islámico, the nation's first Spanish-speaking mosque, was founded just over a year ago in Houston.
Jaweed Kaleem Jaweed Kaleem Contact Reporter
Sitting recently in his office in a converted bank across from a suburban strip mall, Isa Parada methodically thumbed through scripture as he recalled the contrasting moments of his first month leading one of the city’s newest and most unusual houses of worship.
There was the undocumented Mexican congregant who was arrested by immigration officers, leaving his wife and child behind. There was the Syrian American worshiper who wondered after the president’s travel ban if she'd ever see her relatives again. There was the young Mexican American near tears after he converted to join the congregation, part of a stream of newcomers. There were the emails and calls thanking Parada for being there at a time when the country’s leader broadly painted immigrants and Muslims as being prone to violence.
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