RAICES

RAICES Urges ICE to Release Families Currently Detained in Violation of Flores Agreement

March 13, 2019

Today, RAICES filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on behalf of several fathers with children — the youngest just five years old — who have been held at Karnes Detention Center between 41 and 58 days with no word from ICE about their release. These

RAICES LAUNCHES ABOLISH ICE BOX CAMPAIGN AT SXSW IN AUSTIN, TEXAS

March 8, 2019

RAICES is launching a campaign calling on CBP and ICE to abolish the ice box at SXSW today in Austin, Texas. We’ve re-created a hielera — an “ice box,” similar to those used on the border to incarcerate migrants when they first cross into the country. The hielera will be a large room with -10

Lack Of Language Access Separates Families; Results in Deportation

February 21, 2019

Photo Courtesy of the Houston Chronicle This morning, Sara Caal was reunited at the George Bush International Airport in Houston, Texas with her five-year-old daughter, Alida, after being involuntarily separated from her for nine months. Though the separation was difficult, Sara’s story begins long before she crossed the border. At 21 years old, this indigenous

This is the True Crisis At The Border

February 15, 2019

This morning Trump signed a government funding bill that provides $1.375 billion for his proposed border wall, rather than the $5.7 billion he has been pushing for. After signing the bill, he declared the “crisis at the southern border” a National Emergency. He even admitted live on TV that this is a fake emergency by

Force-Feeding Is Torture

February 4, 2019

In an ICE processing center in El Paso, Texas, 11 immigrants are being force-fed through plastic nasal tubes after refusing nine consecutive meals in a hunger strike demonstration. And a federal judge authorized this torture. The asylum-seekers are participating in the hunger strike to raise awareness and improve their situation inside the detention center. Instead,

Remain in Mexico Policy Affects 10,000 Asylum Seekers

January 25, 2019

Maryori is a 26-year-old transgender woman currently in Tijuana. Before RAICES staff found her, she was sleeping on sidewalks and in shelters, with all the dangers that brings. Once, after being assigned to sleep in a bathroom alongside men, she woke to find her hair in clumps all around her on the floor. Someone had