The Frugal Gourmet  Costa Mesa soup-kitchen volunteer feeds
families after brush with deportation  Photo by Nick SchouKevin
is a 43-year-old surf bum with deep set, piercing eyes, a
weather-beaten, sun-scorched face and graying ducktails. You
might say that the best thing about his 45-day stay at Terminal
Island's federal detention facility this summer was the free
food and hot showers. Kevin overstayed his South African tourist
visa 16 years ago. He's been homeless for the last three years.
Kevin fled his home in Durban, South Africa, for Orange County
in 1986, not to escape apartheid, but in search of big waves and
Southern California's laid-back, carefree lifestyle. He says
he's been able to stay here so long because he's always stayed
out of trouble. That is, he did until this summer, when Costa
Mesa police cited Kevin for a moving violation while he rode his
bicycle.  After he showed up to pay his $40 ticket, his extended
stay in the U.S. finally caught up with him: the Immigration &
Naturalization Serv