By Benedict Moran

They waited patiently to get their blood drawn, a crowd of young and middle-aged Queens residents in Corona Square. Two city nurses stood under the plastic tent and pricked the index finger of each outstretched hand, and one by one, extracted a small sample of blood.

Franklin Munoz, a priest who works with Catholic Migration Office, an immigrants’ rights organization, stood nearby and greeted the arrivals, many of them undocumented immigrants.

“When we do this type of work,” he explained, “if they find out that they need further follow-up, they won’t go!” He paused, “They’re just too scared.”

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