(photo credit: Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images) In recent months, the U.S. has a new administration, the number of people crossing the southern border has risen and with it the number of stories in the news, but the reasons that people flee their homelands to seek...
Myth or fact? Both, actually. On the one hand, anti-immigrant voices are telling the American people that there is an enormous and unmanageable “surge” of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border that is a direct result of Joe Biden becoming president. “Be very...
In the News: Immigration. Unaccompanied minors. Terrible holding facilities. Overstays in detention. COVID. Asylum seekers. Families being sent back. Smugglers. It‘s all so confusing. As you hear journalists describing the problems at the border do you find...
Austin has a new non-profit in town. Vecina was founded in November 2019 by Lindsay Gray, who now serves as CEO. Its mission is to “empower immigrant justice advocates through mentoring attorneys, educating communities, and mobilizing volunteers.” Vecina was founded...
A NOTE OF THANKS: In Fall 2020, Women on the Border launched an emergency relief campaign for a teenager migrant from Guinea, a country in West Africa. Mamadou is here legally as a refugee. The bit of financial help he received was put to good use. Below is an...
Austin immigration attorney Virginia Raymond reflects on her work representing asylum seekers during the Trump years and shares her hopes and fears about what the next four years will bring. On the morning of November 9, 2016, I woke up saddened, ill, and angry, but...
