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Bring Them Home
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Christian FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781961482265
Publisher: Woodsong (Formally Prince of Peace Publishers
Published: Aug 17 2026
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.14 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
BRING THEM HOME: One Family. One Decision. One Nation's Conscience. This is a novel based on a true story that traces the human cost of immigration enforcement through the life of one American teenager-and the ripple effects his removal sets in motion.
Mateo GarcÃa is eighteen, a high school graduate, a church kid, and a son shaped by Indiana winters and Midwestern community. He is American in every way that matters-except on paper. When immigration authorities arrive at his home seeking someone whom they did not find, Mateo is taken instead: taken from his family, moved to detention centers, and ultimately deported to a country he does not remember.
What follows is not only Mateo's struggle to survive in an unfamiliar land, but the awakening of a community that refuses to let him disappear. As pastors, teenagers, families, and unexpected allies search for ways to help, the story widens-moving from small-town churches to federal detention centers, from Guatemala's countryside to the quiet rooms where national decisions are made.
Written with restraint, compassion, and moral clarity, BRING THEM HOME explores questions that defy easy answers: What does justice require when the law is applied without mercy? What responsibility does a nation bear for those raised within its borders? And when the rules no longer work cleanly, what must guide those who hold power?
This is not a political argument-it is a human story. One family. One decision. One nation's conscience.
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