Just after 8 a.m. Tuesday, a mother balancing her young child and stacks of paperwork in her arms walked upstream of the growing line outside San Francisco’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on Sansome Street.

As she rewrapped the blanket around her daughter’s shoulders, hiking her onto her hip, a slew of immigration check-in forms flew from her hands.

Russell Jeung, who is part of an interfaith coalition that stations outside the office a few days a week, rushed over to collect the splayed paperwork as he called to her: “You’re out?”

“Yes, yes,” the woman’s husband said eagerly from a few feet behind.

The family laughed and cheered with Jeung, relief evident on all of their faces.

“They were waiting to check in and were able to check in without having to go inside,” Jeung

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