WHO ARE WE SUPPORTING THIS NEW YEAR’S EVE?
Now at the year's end, we want to show our gratitude by spreading some of this community's love around. Here are our recommendations for where we’re sending some of our own end-of-year contributions as well as the suggestions you shared with us …
Laura: RAICES (Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services) provides help for undocumented people (including children) fleeing unimaginable conditions and coming to the US for safety. From things as simple as providing backpacks with supplies and providing temporary shelter, to providing legal services to help immigrants through the complicated US legal system, RAICES embodies the of Emma Lazarus' words on our Statue of Liberty: "Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free." In Texas, everywhere you go, you are likely to encounter someone who didn't enter "legally." These folks cook in our restaurants, clean in the buildings we visit, work dangerous jobs that other people won't work. Many are children. They are good people who are looking for a better life, and do not deserve to be made out to be villains by right-wing blow-hards.
