Posted on June 9, 2015 by Debora Fougere in Al Jazeera America Al Jazeera America, By Debora Fougere Rosa Mendosa is afraid of losing her home. A grandmother and has lived in New York since 1981, she said through an interpreter, “I came to this country from Nicaragua because at the time there was a lot of war and violence in my country.” Mendosa, her son, daughter and two grandchildren settled into an apartment in a low-income, immigrant enclave in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick. “Since I got to this country, I’ve lived in the same building,” she said. “I’ve never known any other place.”
