IWC Visitation Story: Sandy and Stacey’s Story
Outside Karnes County Detention Center On Aug. 26, 2025, Sandy and Stacey visited two women detained at Karnes County Detention Center. Detainees are allowed only one 60-minute visit per week.…
FOCUS ON ACCOMPANIMENT
WHAT IS THE ACCOMPANIMENT PROGRAM The news has been full of reports of individuals being arrested and sent to detention when they appear for their ICE check-ins and Immigration Court…
Minerva’s Story: A Volunteer’s Accompaniment Perspective
The ICE Office where immigrants check-in with ICE as a condition of their legal proceedings. It was my very first accompaniment back in February 2025. A Colombian young man came…
H’s Story: Immigration Hearing (accompaniment story)
IWC Accompaniment volunteers Katie & Kelly with clients outside the immigration court. H., the woman in the black top, had just won her merits hearing. H. is a young Guatemalan woman…
K.’s Story: An ICE Accompaniment
K.’s attorney shared this photo of everyone who showed up to support K. Ann reached out to IWC because she was bringing her friend K. from Austin to an ICE…
HIGHLIGHT: IWC HOSPITALITY PROGRAM
The IWC Hospitality program served 29 people in May 2025. Here is just one family’s story. A mother got ill and fainted at the detention center. She was taken to the hospital.…
IWC VISITS EAGLE PASS
Camp Eagle in Maverick County was completed in three months by private contractor, Team Housing Solutions, with Operation Lone Star (OLS) funds in May 2024. The entire facility is portable – modular housing,…
IWC BOOK ‘TRAVELING MERCIES’ GETS MORE NEWS MEDIA COVERAGE
Volunteers with the Interfaith Welcome Coalition help migrants released from immigration detention and dropped off at the Greyhound Bus station in downtown San Antonio, Friday, April 22, 2022. (Photo Credit: Jerry…
IWC VOLUNTEER SPEAKS AT UNITED WOMEN IN FAITH HORIZON CONFERENCE
IWC volunteer Minerva Briones spoke about IWC’s mission and the work we are doing in San Antonio at the United Women in Faith Horizon Conference held in Fort Worth on…
OUR NEXT MEETING: MEET CAROLINA CANIZALES, SA STANDS
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…