Recent Press - Print
Sustainability: Volunteers continue to aid asylum seekers, by Erin Sheridan, August 23, 2020.
Asylum Seeker and Camp Leader Found Dead in the Rio Grande, reported by People Live Here for the Brownsville Herald, August 18, 2020.
What Links Mary Tyler Moore and Trump & Co’s Migrant “Protection” Protocol?, by Sarah Towle, for the soon to be released book, THE FIRST SOLUTION: Tales of Humanity and Heroism from Trump’s Manufactured Border Crisis, August 12, 2020.
Migrant Camp Residents Describe Stressful Conditions, Send Blessings to the United States, and Offer Support to One Another, By Josue, Erin Sheridan, Elsa Cavazos July 22, 2020.
For this Human Rights Warrior, It’s Déjà Vu at the Border, by Sarah Towle, for the soon to be released book, THE FIRST SOLUTION: Tales of Humanity and Heroism from Trump’s Manufactured Border Crisis, July 15, 2020.
Complaint filed with Inspector General as COVID-19 cases spike at PI Detention Center , by Gaige Davila, Port Isabel South Padre Press, June 11, 2020
Advocates request emergency action from OIG at Port Isabel Detention Center, by Valerie Gonzalez, KRGV, June 10, 2020
Detainees Speak Out from Inside PIDC, by Erin Sheridan, June 7, 2020.
Detained Immigrants Warn Of A Lack Of COVID-19 Protections Inside The Port Isabel Detention Center, by Erin Sheridan, June 3, 2020
Feeding refugees on the U.S.-Mexico border was always a challenge. Now there’s Covid-19. , by Barry Yeoman, Food & Environment Reporting Network, May 21, 2020.
Storm Damages Tents, Floods Pathways In Matamoros Migrant Camp As Aid Work Continues, by Erin Sheridan, May 18, 2020
Migrants, Volunteers Prepare for Possible COVID-19 Outbreak at Mexican Border, by Reynaldo Leaños, Jr., Texas Public Radio, May 17, 2020.
Why Landing in Trump’s America May Be a Fate Worse Than Death, Refugees Wonder, by Sarah Towle, for the soon to be released book, THE FIRST SOLUTION: Tales of Humanity and Heroism from Trump’s Manufactured Border Crisis April 19, 2020.
Aid groups are trying to help asylum seekers stranded at U.S.-Mexico border. COVID-19 makes that much harder. Rafael Carranza, Arizona Republic, April 18, 2020.
Virus Fears Affect Migrant Camp, by Erin Sheridan, Brownsville Herald and The Monitor, April 18, 2020.
Detained Immigrants Warn Of A Lack Of COVID-19 Protections Inside The Port Isabel Detention Center. by Erin Sheridan, a version of this article was published in the Brownsville Herald on April 2, 2020.
CHAPTER TWO: When Aunties and Grannies Turn Into Activists for Dignity and Justice, by Sarah Towle, for the soon to be released book, THE FIRST SOLUTION: Tales of Humanity and Heroism from Trump’s Manufactured Border Crisis, March 20, 2020.
CHAPTER THREE: More Work than Anyone Ever Bargained For, by Sarah Towle, THE FIRST SOLUTION: Tales of Humanity and Heroism from Trump’s Manufactured Border Crisis, March 25, 2020.
Champion of the Cause: Woman founding member of rights coalition, by Erin Sheridan, Brownsville Herald, December 2019.
Alone, Scared and in a Strange Country by Nichole Chavez, CNN, November 30, 2019.
8 women in Texas form group called "Angry Tias and Abuelas" to help migrants, by Laura Molinari, CBS News, June 11, 2019.
Recent Press - Video & Podcasts
The Queso Podcast interview by Amelia Orozco with Tia Beverly Ortiz , July 30, 2020.
Joyce Hamilton 2020 Woman of Faith Award, Presbyterian Mission Agency
Migrants, Volunteers Prepare for Possible COVID-19 Outbreak at Mexican Border, by Reynaldo Leaños, Jr., Texas Public Radio, May 17, 2020.
Angry Tias & Abuelas of the RGV by Boom Boom Media, April 21, 2020
Heroes at the Border - A Humanitarian Spotlight by Carbon Trace Productions, April 10, 2020
ACTIVIZED by TwinSeasMedia.com, March 15, 2020
Champions of Change Award, Church World Service, November 2019
Residents on Both Sides of the Border Try to Help Asylum Seekers Illegally Turned Away by U.S. Gov’t, Democracy Now, June 14, 2018 (filmed the very week that Angry Tias & Abuelas began).