Delegates met face to face with about three detainees at one time. ICE allowed a total of 90 minutes. Over 85 persons had signed up to meet with the group. To preserve anonymity and privacy detainees’ names are not identified. A detainee’s name appears...
Women on the Border is raising money for two organizations engaged in direct compassionate action for asylum-seekers and other immigrants in our communities who have been affected by the pandemic shutdowns. One nonprofit is located in Austin, TX, the other in Du Page...
by Elvia R. Arriola, Executive Director, WOMEN ON THE BORDER (2015) I. Introduction For many years, Women on the Border has participated in cross-border delegations produced by our social justice partners Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera and the Comité Fronterizo de...
SANCTUARY FOR IMMIGRANTS More and more places of worship are saying NO to ICE raids and offering protection to refugees and undocumented residents. Historically, “sanctuary” is an ancient practice rooted in the struggle against injustice. Today a congregation that...
In 2018 the U.S. Government introduced the Zero Tolerance Policy and told border patrol officials to separate children and even babies from legal asylum seeker parents. RAICES has produced a documentary, The Fight, in which they follow the civil rights lawyers who...
I wanted to point out the contradiction. This country purports itself to be a safe haven for LGBTQ people, but it routinely tortures and harasses trans and gender nonconforming migrants in detention. I had known about the case of someone named Roxsana Hernandez, a...
