ICE refusal to parole young Asylum-seeker spurs rally - El Paso Times

Las Americas wins national award

Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center Receives Award from One of Nation's Leading Violence Prevention Agencies

Articles by Las Americas Executive Director, Raymundo Eli Rojas

• There Must be Galley Slaves

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• An Evening with Dolores Huerta
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Research Articles

• Alone in America (pdf) — May, 2005

Las Americas Press Releases and Related Articles

From the University of Minnesota

• Beyond the legalese: U students aid asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants through the legal process,

• Students Experience Flawed Immigration System

From the University of Texas at El Paso The Prospector

• VAWA offers battered immigrants legal residency - Nov. 27, 2007

From the Hickory Daily Record:

• We are not working with criminals ... we are working with people without papers - May 17, 2006

From Newspaper Tree:

• Frontier Justice — October 31, 2005
• Las Americas Helps Burmese Man Get Asylum - October 20, 2007

   

From the El Paso Times:

• Seek practical solutions on immigration — April 8, 2007

• Honored guest speaks today at UTEP — March 24, 2006

• Tommy Lee Jones to show 'Three Burials' — January 29, 2006

• Actor Jones to Show New Movie in El Paso as Fundraiser — January 23, 2006

• Second Chance — October 15, 2005

• EPA Honors Promatoras for Educating Many — May 18, 2005

• Honduran Teen Finds Home with EP Couple — May 9, 2005

• Bill Aims to Aid Young Border Crossers — March 5, 2005

• Deportation Threat Keeps Many Battered Women Silent — February 21, 2005

• El Paso Woman Takes in Immigrant Boy — October 18, 2004

• Immigration: Sponsors Take Children In — July 14, 2004

• Agencies Struggle to Handle Flood of Immigrant Children — June 18, 2004

• "Very High" Number of Children Caught in El Paso This Year — May 23, 2004

From the Arizona Republic:

• Youngsters Risk Their Lives to Enter U.S.

From the New York Times:

• Finding a Way to Keep It All Going — November 18, 2002

Also in the Media:

• Bush's Immigration Proposal Raises Questions

• Urgent Need for Pro Bono Assistance for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children

• Texas Bar Foundation Supports Representation of Detained Children in El Paso

• LegalFront (Newsletter of the Texas Lawyers Care) Highlights Legal Aid to the Poor in Texas (pdf, 430k; See page 9 for Sr. Liliane Alam's Testimony)

• Sr. Liliane Alam receives Presidential Award for Community Service

• Sr. Liliane Alam: A Franciscan Missionary to the Border

• Sr. Liliane Alam, Executive Director of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, presented at the Texas Supreme Court (Read this article at the Texas Bar Web Site)

• Mexicanen dromen van beter leven in VS (Dutch)

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