Protecting Immigrant Communities Newsletter: 9/16/20
By: Cheasty Anderson and Sara Albanna Dear Partners and Friends, Thank you so much for wanting to stay up to date on what’s happening. Here’s [...]
Read MoreHow a Pandemic Highlights the Need for Keeping Elected Officials Accountable
By: Kim Ly "Austin Capitol Building" by The Brit_2 is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 With the enormous rise in and number of COVID-19 cases in jails, it [...]
Read MoreThe Fight Against Racial Injustice: In Memory of John Lewis
By: Andrew Martinez "John Lewis, lying in state" by vpickering is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Last week marked the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act - landmark [...]
Read MoreProtecting Immigrant Communities Newsletter: 8/14/20
Dear Partners and Friends, Thank you so much for wanting to stay up to date on what’s happening. Here’s the latest roundup of immigration-related news, [...]
Read MoreHow Medicaid Saved a Mother and Her Baby
My name is Clarissa. The cost of healthcare in this country is sky high. Medicaid bridges that gap and is really important for a lot of people that you might not realize it is.
Read MoreAn Uninsured Student and Essential Worker Has a Message for Texas Leaders
Amber is a former Beat the Odds scholar, college student who has been an essential worker AND uninsured during this pandemic. She has a message [...]
Read MoreThe Children’s Defense Fund- Texas Strongly Opposes the New Restrictions on Asylum-Seekers
By: Ana Ruiz "2018/11/18 Asylum Seekers in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco Migrant Refuge Center" by Daniel Arauz is licensed under CC BY 2.0 The Children's Defense Fund-Texas strongly opposes the Proposed [...]
Read MoreChildren’s Defense Fund – Texas statement regarding the president’s memorandum on excluding undocumented individuals from the apportionment base following the 2020 Census.
The Texas office of the Children’s Defense Fund is outraged by the President’s recent memorandum on the Census, in which he attempts to mandate that undocumented Americans be excluded in the final census count used to apportion Congressional representation.
Read MoreTrump is Using COVID-19 to Ban Asylum-Seekers: Speak Out in Opposition!
"2018/11/23 Ten days old Asylum Seekers arrives in Tijuana, Mexico" by Daniel Arauz is licensed under CC BY 2.0 While the president openly ignores the gravity of the COVID-19 [...]
Read More