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Temporary housing would help them find their footing, he said, because 70% of people who enter the program are effectively homeless, sleeping in their cars or couch surfing.

Inside, he joins the family for TV and movies on their living room couch.

“They sent my father to the border with only the clothes on his back,” Alvarado, now 85, told me in Spanish while sinking into a comfy couch at his daughter’s well-kept Anaheim home.

On July 23, 1997, she raced home from the airport and collapsed on her couch.

You are supposed to fall asleep on the couch, then wake up and wonder if it’s Sunday or Thursday.