Virginia’s Immigration Court Backlog Among Largest in Nation

By Georgia Geen

Abbie Arevalo-Herrera, a Honduran woman fleeing domestic violence. She has taken refuge in a Richmond church. Photographer: Carlos Bernate

RICHMOND — The first thing Abbie Arevalo Herrera is going to do when she eventually leaves sanctuary is thank God.

“He’s the one who’s allowed me to have this experience, and I feel like I’m learning a lot, things I never imagined,” Arevalo Herrera said in Spanish.