'I was like you before'

 An unaccompanied minor from Honduras wades across the Rio Grande headed for Roma, Texas, May 13, 2022. (CNS/Reuters/Adrees Latif)

 An unaccompanied minor from Honduras wades across the Rio Grande headed for Roma, Texas, May 13, 2022. (CNS/Reuters/Adrees Latif)

In an episode of the "In Good Faith" podcast, St. Joseph Trish Doan shared tales of her long journey from Vietnam to the United States as a child. In this clip, she recalls how it was not until she was working with unaccompanied minors in U.S. Immigration Services that she realized the truth: As a refugee making her way to the United States, she herself had been an unaccompanied minor.

Click here to listen to the full "In Good Faith" podcast where this clip is from.

GSR shares clips from our friends at A Nun's Life Ministry. Check out full episodes of all their podcasts (Ask Sister, In Good Faith, Random Nun Clips and more, like the archived Motherhouse Road Trips) on their website, ANunsLife.org.

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