Photo Courtesy of the Houston Chronicle As many parents will attest, there’s no moment more fondly remembered than having your baby placed in your arms for the first time. It’s the beginning of a true bond between a mother and her child. Every choice mom made for you from then on was to give you

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Today we sent this formal complaint to ICE demanding access to legal counsel for immigrants at Karnes. For over a month now ICE, working in cahoots with the Geo Group (a private prison company profiting from detaining immigrants), created obstacles to prevent individuals detained at Karnes from accessing our free legal services. ICE and GEO

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Many immigrants’ stories begin months or years before we meet them at the border. Rarely do we have the privilege of following their path to their ultimate outcome. We are happy to report that nine members of La Comunidad that we helped bring to the border late last year received asylum in April!  Their current safety

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Earlier this month, a federal judge in San Francisco ordered a stop to this administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy. Asylum seekers should not be forced to wait for days, weeks or months at the border when fleeing persecution, violence, and war in their home countries. The “Remain in Mexico” policy has implications far greater than

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On Tuesday, Attorney General William Barr issued an order that reverses current immigration policy. This order directs immigration judges to deny migrants a chance to post bail. This would affect adult asylum seekers traveling alone who enter this country at a place other than an established port of entry from being allowed a bond hearing

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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

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