by Sid Earnheart | Sep 8, 2021 | General
In November 2018, Elisa O’Callaghan, board member for North Central Texas JFON, left her home close to the Texas-Oklahoma border and headed south. She was on her way to help asylum seekers stuck waiting on Matamoros/Brownsville Bridge—the bridge that spans the Rio...
by Sid Earnheart | Aug 18, 2021 | General
By: Ana Arellanos-Baeza, Legal Director One of the first things our attorney covers with any client, or potential client, is the importance of avoiding Notarios and the dangers that they can pose. Unfortunately, not all clients take this conversation to heart, which...
by Graham Bateman | Jul 3, 2018 | General
To volunteer: The Immigration Justice Campaign, AILA and the American Immigration Council’s initiative to increase pro bono representation for detained immigrants, is actively working on family separation cases, and helping families detained at the South Texas...
by Graham Bateman | Jul 3, 2018 | General
RAICES has launched a program to locate the parents of separated children. If you are working with a child and trying to find their parent, please use this intake. http://bit.ly/parentintake We will help locate the parent and provide them with necessary legal...
by Graham Bateman | Jun 25, 2018 | General
NPR: Mother and son reunited after being separated at the border “I started crying when I saw him, because he is the only child I have,” Beata Mariana de Jesus Mejia-Mejia told reporters at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. Rio...
by Graham Bateman | Jun 24, 2018 | General
Almost twelve years ago Dracilla fled the violence in the Congo with her three young children: Joseph, Alizia, and Ephriam. After Dracilla’s application for refugee status was approved the small family spent ten years living in a United Nations Refugee camp in...
