IWC currently collaborates with Texas Impact and the Washington-DC based Interfaith Immigration Coalition (IIC) to guide our advocacy education and action. Each week until the end of May 2025, we will suggest an action to take,…
Despite the border largely being closed to asylum seekers, IWC served 1,187 people in January 2025. In the last full calendar year (2024), the IWC served 16,907, with a monthly…
On Jan. 26-28, 10 people who are affiliated with the IWC in San Antonio traveled to Austin to attend the Texas Impact legislative event. They were able to reach across…
Several external factors will be impacting our volunteer programs: The new administration has largely closed off all asylum reception at the border. Essentially no one is being released from Border…
Whew! We made it through the recording session! Front row: Michelle Rumbaut, Robin Raquet, Katie Myers, Sr. Denise La Rock. Back Row: David Martin Davies, Mary Grace Ketner, Jonathan Ryan, Dawn…
Several external factors will be impacting our volunteer programs: The new administration has largely closed off all asylum reception at the border. Essentially no one is being released from Border…
Terry Burton reads a story from Traveling Mercies at The Twig Bookshop. (Photo Credit: Robin Raquet) On Tuesday, January 28, five Traveling Mercies authors read their moving, personal stories of encounters with…
IWC Communications Chair, Joan Plotnick, spoke to about 50 women at a Hill Country Texas Democratic Women’s (HCTDW) luncheon on Feb. 3 in Kerrville. The presentation focused on IWC’s history,…
IWC’s friend and collaborative partner, Pastor Dianne Garcia of Iglesia Cristiana Roca de Refugio, a Mennonite church in San Antonio, was quoted in an article by the Washington Post titled, ‘What ending…
Here’s some advocacy advice excerpted from a staffer for a senator. (The advice can also apply to state and local representatives.) The take home message – Call or visit. Phone…