This story was produced in partnership between Enlace Latino NC and The Charlotte Observer.
Even as overnight temperatures hung in the 20s and 30s, immigrants desperate to make appointments at Charlotte’s Department of Homeland Security office slept outside the building in recent weeks.
“We’ve already been waiting two nights, since 7:00 p.m. on Monday,” said one woman on the morning of Jan. 21, who identified herself as María Cristina. “Thank God we are close now, and God willing, we’ll make it in today.”…