Uncategorized – RAICES

Jakelin’s Death in CBP custody is shameful

December 14, 2018

We are ashamed by Jakelin’s death. A rational and just immigration system would leave no room for the death of any asylum-seeker entering our country, let alone a seven-year-old girl. Our thoughts are with Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin’s family, and our actions will be too. For too long, our country has disincentivized presenting at

CREW and RAICES Sue DHS Over Continued Family Separation Failures

December 14, 2018

Washington — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen have continued to violate the Federal Records Act (FRA) by failing to create records linking immigrant families and failing to establish an adequate agency-wide records management program, according to an amended lawsuit filed today by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)

What I Saw In Texas

December 14, 2018

This blog post was written by actor and activist, Alyssa Milano. This week I had the opportunity to observe the attorneys and caseworkers of RAICES in action at various locations around Texas. My first stop was the Greyhound bus station in San Antonio where newly-released detainees are dropped off by ICE. There, RAICES staff like

We’re Suing to Stop the Trump Administration’s New Immoral and Illegal Asylum Policy

December 7, 2018

In response to the Trump administration’s ploy to manufacture a humanitarian crisis on our border, RAICES has joined with others to sue the administration’s new policy to deny people from applying for asylum at the border. We’ve joined with the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition and Hogan Lovell, a law firm to state unequivocally that

Shining a Light on Tornillo Tent Camp and the Immigration Court in El Paso

November 29, 2018

Today thanks to our legal advocacy and media attention, asylum-seekers in the Tornillo children’s detention center are starting to get the fair legal hearings they deserve. Tornillo is a tent camp in the Texas desert where 2,324 migrant children sleep in long rows of bunk beds in Tornillo. The detention center has expanded rapidly in