HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) FIEL, an immigrant-led civil rights organization, has been in Houston since 2007. Its founders never imagined how much the organization would grow following its inception. We started as a grassroots student organization at Houston Community College and the University of Houston, said executive director Cesar Espinosa. We grew, little by little, into being the largest civil rights organization in the State of Texas.
FIEL offers a variety of services for immigrants and their families hoping to navigate the immigration system. Their most famous case, according to Espinosa, involved a man named Jose Escobar. He was deported to El Salvador in 2017, which led FIEL to make many calls, consult attorneys, and stay in communication with everyone from local to federal officials.
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Houston immigration advocates ‘cautiously optimistic’ about reform efforts
Robert Arnold, Investigative Reporter
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HOUSTON – Many Houston-area immigration advocates and families are hopeful President Joe Biden can enact sweeping immigration reforms. Among other proposals, Biden wants to provide a path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million people living in the country illegally.
“We’re a very religious family so we pray at night. We pray that we’re going to be ok,” said Josue Ventura.
Ventura is a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program started in 2012. Ventura said he was brought to the U.S. when he was six years old in 2001. He’s grown up in the United States, graduated high school and has a career as a translator for parents with special needs students.
Immigrants applaud Biden’s immigration plan, prepare for action By Olivia P. Tallet, Staff writer
January could have marked a sad, forced return to El Salvador for Angela Hernandez’s family after living in the United States for 23 years. Instead, she said President Joe Biden’s action on immigration on the same day of his inauguration has turned Jan. 20 into one of the most hopeful that she can remember.
Only a few months ago, on a day in mid-September, the Salvadoran immigrant said she woke up to yet more news about the Donald Trump administration’s quest to expel around 400,000 immigrants like her who have been legally residing and working in the country with Temporary Protected Status or TPS.
Houston-area Dreamers and immigrants optimistic about Biden s immigration plan
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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) Wednesday s inauguration is a big deal for millions of immigrants and Dreamers.
Ibet Hernandez is anxiously awaiting for President-elect Joe Biden to be sworn in, which could mean a path to citizenship for her and many others. It means a lot because I ve been here my whole life, Hernandez said.
She s from Houston and just got her associate degree from Houston Community College. She s also applying for DACA also known as, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which she says has been hard for her the past few years.