Steven Tendo is a young Pastor from Uganda who has now been detained at the ICE Port Isabel Detention Center for more than two years, despite the resulting severe damage to his mental and physical health. Although former ICE Director Pham agreed in September 2020 to …
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For many months now you have been asking how to help press for Pastor Steven Tendo’s release from ICE Port Isabel Detention Center, where he has been held without parole for more than two years. As you recall, we put up a ferocious fight to save him from an abrupt deportation effort back …
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Happy New Years to one and all from Pastor Steven Tendo, together with his profound thanks for everything you have done for him, from calls for his release, to sending him paper and stamps and commissary funds, to becoming pen-pals and sharing books. The kindness and compassion everyone has shown
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What have we done? Why have we turned against our own heritage as a nation of immigrants? We cannot and must not forget the horror we have witnessed at the Texas Mexico border. But we must also answer the question “What should we do now?” We Angry Tias and Abuelas urge the following and immediate reforms.
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As we await an address by our President-elect Joseph R. Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, we Tías and Abuelas are swimming in a sea of emotions….
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We are writing to express our grave concern about the ongoing detention of numerous asylum seekers in the ICE Port Isabel Detention Center, Los Fresnos, Texas.
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The threat of Coronavirus is being taken very seriously in the refugee camp of Matamoros, as in other parts of the world. To avert the possibility of volunteers transmitting the virus to those in the camp,
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If you have already made or are making plans to travel to the Rio Grande Valley to volunteer with us…
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President Trump’s Remain in Mexico Program, ironically entitled the Migrant Protection Protocols, (“MPP”) has now arrived in South Texas. The results have been horrific. Under the new protocols, the families fleeing repression and violence in their homelands may no longer simply cross the bridge and ask for asylum, as set forth by federal law.
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As the refugees at our southern border face ever worsening conditions, we Tias have decided that we must establish a special legal defense fund for extraordinary cases.
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In early June of this year, the Angry Tias and Abuelas, along with Detained Migrant Solidarity Committee and La Union del Pueblo Entero (LUPE), went to Washington DC to receive the 2019 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award.
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To ensure our website stays current, we have decided to add a blog so our visitors will be up to date on some of the things we are doing along the border in an attempt to restore dignity to the asylum-seekers.
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