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Wesley lived in Minnesota for over 30 years. He was born in Poland and his parents moved to America, yet he never received a U.S. citizenship.\u00a0 Almost 4 months ago Wesley was deported back to Poland. Having grown up in America, Wesley doesn’t know any other language other than American English. Not being able to speak a local language and not knowing anyone in Europe, Wesley wandered around Europe sleeping rough. He eventually made his way to the UK so he can communicate.<\/p>\n

Wesley told me he has been sleeping rough in the UK for 2 weeks. Unlike Carl, who is a U.S. citizen and cannot get benefits in the UK<\/a>, Wesley’s Polish heritage entitles him to benefits here. Wesley said it took 5 nights for local outreach teams to verify that he was actually homeless (I am told they have to witness a person asleep on the ground. In the U.S. we have similar sometimes unpractical rules) but he is now in a night shelter. Carl is not so lucky and has to sleep outside in the cold.<\/p>\n

Wesley was an owner-operator truck driver in Minnesota. Here in the UK he is just another rough sleeper. Wesley has only one wish – to go back home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[317,230,316],"tags":[253,515,508,318,507,324,509],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos\/2913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/videos"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}