Carolina Canizales will speak to us about SA Stands. Canizales is the Senior Texas Campaign Strategist at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC). In her role, she helps build organizing and advocacy capacity to fight back the criminalization, incarceration, and deportation of immigrant communities in Texas. Carolina has worked in immigrant justice for the last 12 years.
Previously, she led United We Dream’s deportation defense program, which empowered communities to defend their rights, stop unjust deportations, and challenge ongoing collaboration between local police and Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE). Carolina has led advocacy campaigns for more than 200 families facing deportation. Since 2015, she has anchored multiple local campaigns to end police-ICE contracts and to reduce over policing and discriminatory arrests across Texas.
