IWC VOLUNTEER HELPS SOMEONE BY HELPING HER CHILDREN
By Clemencia L. Prieto In the Fall of 2022, while on duty at the bus station, I saw a guest sitting on one of the benches who seemed worried and…
NEVERTHELESS THEY STOOD…FOR ME
A Poem by Moon Sánchez-Brand My neighbors told me the “gringos” will hate on me I didn’t want to leave the land of my people To travel for months in…
SA’S NEW POET LAUREATE NOT NEW TO IWC
In 2019, around 100 IWC volunteers went to Laredo to join our collaborators there for Bold Border Action, a daylong event that included a Riverside memorial service for those who…
BETO’S WILD RIDE
By Mary Grace Ketner Sometimes helping a migrant reach his final destination involves a lot of logistics and teamwork among numerous individuals and organizations. That was the case with one…
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.…