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…
TAKE 5 – OPPORTUNITY FOR CIVIC ACTION
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,…
IWC SERVED ALMOST 1.2K PEOPLE IN JAN. 2025
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…
IWC MEMBERS ATTEND TEXAS IMPACT LEGISLATIVE EVENT
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…
PLEASE HELP IWC CONTINUE ITS MISSION
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…
“TRAVELING MERCIES” FEATURED ON “THE SOUCE: LIVE”
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…