AN IWC FOUNDER HONORED IN FILM BY IWC VOLUNTEER
(Left) Rebecca Flores answers questions from the crowd. (Right) Laura Varela introduces the film with clip of Rebecca Flores on the screen. An IWC founder and labor leader Rebecca Flores…
¡ALABARÉ! (I WILL PRAISE HIM)
By Terry and Lucretia Burton In the bus station one day, I sang “Alabare” (“I Will Praise Him”) with one of the young immigrant men who had just been released…
“DIOS ES GRANDE”—A MEMORY FROM OUR EARLY DAYS
Janice Clayton and her dog. Pepys by Janice Clayton One Saturday in the spring of 2015, I received a call for help from Lenna Baxter, IWC director (and great volunteer.)…
DO YOU LIKE TO SEE GROWN MEN CRY?
By Lucretia Burton Do you like to see grown men cry? I must admit that I do. It brings me joy when a man can show his feelings. So I…
UNTOLD STORIES
By Lucretia Burton The traumas “the pilgrims” have gone through (and even after they get to the United States) are so horrible that we do not ask about them.…
A STIRRING
By Katie Myers The men patiently waited their turn to retrieve their bus tickets from the counter. Dressed in nondescript clothing, they carried their belongings in the kind of coarse…
EDUARDO
By Barbara Edens Eduardo from Ecuador arrived at the airport. He had not eaten, so I walked with him to the café in Terminal A and bought him a…
DO YOU REMEMBER ME?
By Sr. Sharon Altendorf Last week, a young Spanish-speaking man asked me if I remembered him. I’m sorry to say I did not. A year ago, he told me, he…
RUTH AND NAOMI
by Dawn Silvius One sunny Saturday morning this past winter, I stopped by the bus station to deliver fresh lunches. There were six or eight migrant mothers and children…
THE PHONE CALL
By Jan Olsen Once at the bus station, a father and son were dropped off from the Karnes Detention Center. I could tell immediately that the father was very stressed. He shared…