Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center

We are conducting a community workshop this Wednesday, July 17th, for individuals with active asylum cases in immigration court. We will offer free legal information and assistance.

🗓️ WHEN: Wednesday, July 17th from 5-7pm
📍 WHERE: La Fe Culture and Technology Center721 S. Ochoa, El Paso, TX 79901
(REAR BUILDING)
🔗 REGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/3VxA00U

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Este miércoles 17 de julio llevaremos a cabo un taller comunitario para personas con casos de asilo activos en la corte de inmigración. Le ofreceremos información y asistencia jurídica gratuita.

🗓️ CUÁNDO: miércoles 17 de julio de 5 a 7 p. m.
📍 DÓNDE: Centro Cultural y Tecnológico La Fe 721 S. Ochoa, El Paso, TX 79901
(EDIFICIO TRASERO)
🔗 REGISTRESE AQUU: https://bit.ly/3VxA00U

We are so excited to announce this year's Border Heroes!

🦋 Our Border Hero recognitions are very special to our vision. These are advocates who represent the very best of our borderland community and our values at Las Americas. 🦋

Today is your last chance to get your early bird tickets! Get your tickets today: www.las-americas.org/bh-2024

Our favorite time of the year is Las Americas' Annual Border Heroes Award Ceremony. 🦋

Get your early bird tickets before this Friday, July 12th, and join us to celebrate this year's awardees and their service to the borderlands.

For tickets and sponsorship opportunities, please visit: https://www.las-americas.org/bh-2024

Las Americas, with support from our summer interns/fellows, (Fordham Law, Macalester College, University or Chicago, CUNY Law, and UTEP) have completed over 850 work authorization applications of more than 1,000 at the work permit workshops for newly arrived asylum seekers at .

✨ Through these weekly workshops, in partnership with Estrella del Paso Sacred Heart Church, El Paso, TX, we empower and support thousands of individuals in their journey to work with dignity in their new homes. This is a significant step forward in providing opportunities for asylum seekers to rebuild their lives in a new country.

🦋However, Border Servant Corps needs our help to keep their doors open and continue this crucial work of welcome. Donate today to make an impact: https://epcf.org/families.

We are organizing the “Community Asylum Workshop” as the first event in a monthly series. These workshops are designed to provide free legal information.

🦋If you or someone you know have an active asylum case in immigration court and need support, or would like to apply for asylum and don’t know how, this workshop is for you!

🗓️ WHEN: Wednesday, June 26th from 5-7pm
📍 WHERE: La Fe Culture and Technology Center
721 S. Ochoa, El Paso, TX 79901
🔗 Please register at: https://bit.ly/3VxA00U

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Estamos organizando un taller llamado “Taller Comunitario de Asilo” cada mes. Estos talleres están diseñados para brindar información legal gratuita.

🦋Si usted o alguien que conoce tiene un caso de asilo activo en una corte de inmigración y necesita apoyo, o le gustaría solicitar asilo y no sabe cómo, ¡este taller es para usted!

🗓️ CUÁNDO: Miércoles 26 de junio de 5 a 7 p.m.
📍 DÓNDE: Centro Cultural y Tecnológico La Fe
721 S. Ochoa, El Paso, TX 79901

🔗 Se require registro: https://bit.ly/3VxA00U

Migrants Held in Otero Prison File Complaint for Retaliatory Use of Solitary Confinement The five asylum seekers from Venezuela refused to agree to their removal to Mexico due to their fear of serious harm in Mexico. In direct retaliation, ICE officers and guards placed them in solitary confinement.

Yup. Forget blush and bashful. Mexican Pink is our signature color!

Today, President Biden announced an executive order to partially suspend asylum processing for persons crossing the southern border between ports of entry when such crossings exceed 2500 per day. In response, Marisa Limón Garza, Executive Director of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and New Mexico, said:

Today’s decision clearly illustrates that this administration is ignoring lessons from the failed deterrence measures put in place by its predecessors. Being strong on immigration doesn’t require an assault on asylum seekers or cruelty toward people seeking protection at our southern border. The Biden administration doesn’t need to rely on harsh deterrence tactics like trump’s failed muslim travel ban and latino ban, which were also created to close the doors on refugees and send families back to the violent conditions they fought to escape. Together, these policies represent a concerning trend of political manipulation and irresponsible immigration practices. This does nothing to mitigate the violence and family separations, ignores due process, and moves us away from a humane, safe, and orderly system, inevitably forcing migrants into the hands of cartels and traffickers.

Las Americas stands in complete opposition to this and any measure that keeps vulnerable people in precarity at our borders. Instead of this cruelty, our country needs policies rooted in a more person-centered response at the southern border. We stand ready to contribute our insights and suggestions toward those real solutions.

BREAKING: Biden Admin Signs Executive Order Restricting Asylum, Echoing Previous Administration’s Campaign Against People Seeking Safety — Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy C EL PASO, TEXAS— Today, President Biden announced an executive order to partially suspend asylum processing for persons crossing the southern border between ports of entry when such crossings exceed 2500 per day. In response, Marisa Limón Garza, Executive Director of Las Americas Immigrant Advoc

Incrediby proud of the opportunity to support the dignity of work alongside our colleagues at Estrella del Paso and Border Servant Corps. Together, we make an even bigger impact. ⚡️

Texas’ continuous misuse of power, whether it’s implementing anti-immigrant laws like Senate Bill 4 from the third and fourth special session, or suing compassion and leadership, sets a dangerous precedent beyond our state.

We are the wealthiest country on the planet. We can reimagine a functioning immigration system that supports the needs of all groups including DACA recipients and newcomers alike

Attacking crucial organizations like will only lead to chaos and more cruelty.

That’s why today, and everyday we stand, proudly, in solidarity with and all the organizations doing the crucial work of welcome.

Asylum is a human right under international law, we must not allow politics of fear and hatred divide us.

Today, and every day, we stand in solidarity with Annunciation House and with those they serve.

Las Americas was founded in 1987 by El Paso human rights activists Ruben Garcia and Delia Gomez, co-founders of Annunciation House.

🦋Su lucha es nuestra lucha.

El Paso's Museums Refocus on Local Communities | Glasstire Jessica Fuentes writes about the new leadership at four El Paso museums and their renewed focus on community engagement.

Yesterday’s “cumbias y comadres,” a pop-up shop for our Mercado Monarca at , was a dream 🦋 💫.

💞Thank you to everyone who could attend and celebrate Valentine’s Day with us.

A massive shoutout to all our vendors and more. Yesterday’s event would not have been possible without you.

🖇️Shop mercado monarca at the link in our bio.

Join us this Saturday for a special event 🦋Mercado Monarca: Galentines Day Edition “Cumbias y Comadres.”

🗓️ February 10, 2024
⏰ 10am-1pm MT
📍 2430 Wyoming Ave, El Paso, TX 79901

Featuring local vendors and artists NailzzXRose and more.

Annunciation House was founded 46 years ago today. These words from our founder, Ruben Garcia, are as apt today as they were when he wrote them for our 20th anniversary:

“The hospitality that is Annunciation House is not simply a work in charity. It is a vigil in justice- an often lonely vigil in the face of anti-immigrant sentiment and unyielding belief that it’s OK to use the poor to ensure higher standards of living for others.”

“By virtue of their long and incredible journeys, physical presence, great human suffering and indomitable spirit, [immigrants] continue to demand that they be taken into account in the ongoing process which defines the relationship among peoples, decides the distribution of wealth and resources of the land and judges what will be the rights, privileges, and recourse of all.”

Today is Trayvon Martin's 29th birthday. He should be celebrating the last year of his 20s with his beloved family and friends. But unfortunately, as we all know, he's not due to his extrajudicial murder at the hands of a vigilante who was supported by a complicit legal system not equipped to deliver justice to Black communities.

We can continue remembering Trayvon and show gratitude to his family, whose pain sparked a global movement, by supporting his family's work to end gun violence and strengthen our communities with a donation to the Trayvon Martin Foundation.

Black Lives Matter is about uplifting our own and keeping each other safe. The Trayvon Martin Foundation is doing exactly that.

Today and every day, we honor Black History Month and the stories of Black refugees and immigrants on the move.

The fight for justice for all immigrants is part of a bigger racial justice movement, which demands complete equality and investments in the liberation of Black immigrants.

Follow and amplify the work of Black-led immigrant rights organizations, including:

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Congress is trying to pass an already harmful supplemental budget bill that would further militarize our borders.

Democrats are using our immigrant communities as political pawns to get Republicans to pass this supplemental funding bill by agreeing to extreme, permanent anti-immigrant policy changes.

🦋We must protect people’s right to seek safety in the U.S. Call Your Senator & urge them to say NO to anti-immigrant policies!

☎️ 213-335-2333.

We are so excited to announce our brand new online shop, affectionately named ‘Mercado Monarca,’ an ode to the Las Americas logo which features the iconic monarch butterfly - the ultimate symbol of migration.

Our merch was thoughtfully designed and created by local borderland artist, Staphany Garnica 🎨🦋.

Grab your Justicia Sin Fronteras or Tu Lucha es Mi Lucha tee today!

🔗 https://www.bonfire.com/store/mercado-monarca/

Yesterday, our Executive Director Marisa Limón Garza, along with Interfaith Immigration Coalition, led a prayer vigil as part of the & rally 🕊️.

During the vigil, people of faith prayed for justice for our immigrant neighbors, and asylum seekers shared their stories.

¡La lucha sigue!

Grateful to join borderlands representatives, Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center , Hope Border Institute and national coalition partners for a press conference highlighting humane principles for immigration policy and the need for bipartisan action that takes into consideration the common good.

Congress is engaged in a spirited debate about funding for an international aid package with significant implications for asylum seekers.

We were joined by The Episcopal Public Policy Network and Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights for a picture in the beautiful lobby of the Methodist Building on Capitol Hill.

ELCA Advocacy

Border Patrol agent illegally turns away asylum-seeking migrants who had already made it into Texas A US Border Patrol agent sent a family of asylum-seekers back to Mexico after they had reached US soil-- a violation of US law and Border Patrol policy.

We're enjoying chocolatito and a Rosca de Reyes. One problem...someone left their babies behind. We may need an orphanage 😉

Our detained and deportation defense, in collaboration with two students from , surveyed 25+ men and women detained in the Otero Processing (Detention) Center in New Mexico.

What these individuals experienced, including unhealthy living conditions, abuse, and poor sanitation, is sadly common in immigration detention.

Swipe through to read firsthand from some of the migrants we spoke with.

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