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Migrant Deaths are a Feature, Not a Bug, of U.S. Immigration Policy, Texas Observer, July 25, 2022

KENS5 speaks with Attorney Sara Ramey about legal options for the survivors of the truck disaster and what the Administration can do to Help

Migrants who survived journey in hot trailer could be granted special visas, KENS5, June 30, 2022

KSAT12 Interviews Executive Director on What’s Next after the Supreme Court’s Decision on MPP What’s next for Texas? SCOTUS rules Biden administration can end ‘remain in Mexico’ policy, KSAT, June 30, 2022

Martha MacCallum Interviews Executive Director on Title 42 Expulsion Policy

Arizona rancher struggles with ‘drug packers’ invading his property, Fox News, May 20, 2022

ABC Denver Speaks with Executive Director on How Title 42 Denies Access to Our Asylum Process and Funnels Billions to the Cartels

What does Title 42 ending mean for those working along the border?, ABC Denver 7, April 22, 2022

KENS 5 Discusses Title 42 Ending with Immigration Attorney Sara Ramey

U.S. Rep. Castro, advocates want White House to end controversial immigration policy, KENS 5, March 21, 2022

KSAT 12 Interviews Executive Director on Large Number of Haitians at the Border

KSAT spoke with Executive Director Sara Ramey on the evening news about her concerns and what is likely going to happen with the 13,000 Haitians camped out under the Del Rio, Texas bridge.

Overloaded court system awaits Haitian asylum seekers in Del Rio, KSAT 12, September 17, 2021

KENS 5 Airs Executive Director Calling for Speedy Release of Children

Executive Director Sara Ramey spoke on the air with KENS 5 explaining that children should be released as soon as possible. In March 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered nearly 19,000 unaccompanied minors—the most to ever arrive in a single month. New CBP processing coordinators — not law enforcement agents — have been hired to take on the many tasks that have overwhelmedfield agents, such as providing the children with hot meals and assuring they have access to mattresses. The conditions in these facilities are notorious for being freezing, cramped, and unsanitary, and have had devastating consequences. CBP has systematically failed to provide children with adequate medical care, including mental health services. Last year a federal court issued a permanent injunction mandating that some CBP facilities provide people with cloth blankets, potable water, and showers.  By law, CBP cannot hold unaccompanied minors in its facilities for more than 72 hours.

10 days after first arrivals, feds have yet to discharge any migrant children from the Freeman, KENS 5, April 8, 2021

MSNBC Speaks with Migrant Center Executive Director

MSNBC discusses processing cases at the U.S. – Mexico border with Executive Director Sara Ramey on the morning news. March 27, 2021

KENS 5 Discusses Arrival of Unaccompanied Minors with Immigration Attorney Sara Ramey

Migrant Center attorney Sara Ramey speaks with KENS 5 about how our laws make it difficult for judges to grant protection despite the dangers faced by unaccompanied minors.

San Antonio attorney breaks down the process of getting migrant kids out of Freeman and into homes, KENS 5, March 25, 2021

KSAT 12 Interviews Executive Director on Evening News

Biden announced that he will be submitting a significant immigration bill to Congress on Day 1.  Listen to this interview with our Executive Director and view our Podcast on some of the changes.

Advocates see promise in President-elect Biden’s immigration overhaul proposal, KSAT 12, January 20, 2021

The Midland Reporter-Telegram quotes our Executive Director on the value of reinstituting the case management program to assist immigrants in attending their court hearings:

Arches magazine does a cover feature of our Executive Director in their summer publication where she talks about the work the Migrant Center does helping refugees in Texas: 

The Room Where the Stories are Told

KENS 5 interviews Migrant Center Executive Director on the situation at the border:

Funding in Works for 100 New Immigration Judges, KSAT, May 30, 2019

Author Daniel Blue Tyx discusses his trip accompanying the Migrant Center to the South Texas Detention Complex in his new book on the border:

When I Discovered My Town Is Where Immigrant Families are Separated, Yes!, Daniel Blue Tyx, May 23, 2019

Angry Tías: Cruelty and Compassion on the U.S. Mexico Border

Processing asylum seekers at the border, KENS5, May 5, 2019

VICE quotes our board member Jodi Goodwin on the corruption and abuse that U.S. policies have fueled in Mexico:

EXCLUSIVE: Mexican Officials are Extorting Thousands of Dollars from Migrants Applying for Asylum, VICE, March 13, 2019

The San Antonio Current speaks with Migrant Center Executive Director about the illegality of not paying a minimum wage to immigrants detained at the South Texas Detention Complex who must work to pay for important phone calls and food:

Texas Power Brokers features our Executive Director:

Sirius XM’s POTUS radio show host Tim Farley interviewed our Executive Director about the right to seek asylum. Sirius XM has 3.4 million subscribers.

The San Antonio Express News quotes our Executive Director on how the president’s threat to take away citizenship from people born in the U.S. based on who their parents are is illogical, illegal, and inhumane:

The San Antonio Express News speaks with our client after an Immigration Judge denied her asylum based on the Matter of AB, the Attorney General’s recent decision that our asylum laws will no longer protect victims of domestic violence in most circumstances:

The Associated Press features the story of our client Vivian, who ICE is refusing to release from detention to be with her 3-year-old son. Her and our client Josefina are being locked up and forced to remain apart from their minor children because they have old deportation orders, even though they both presented themselves at the bridge as the Trump Administration wants asylum seekers to do and even though both have passed credible fear interviews demonstrating a significant possibility of winning their cases. Vivian has been apart from her son for over three months:

The San Antonio Express News interviews Migrant Center immigration attorney Sara Ramey and her client Josefina who has been separated from her son and detained at the South Texas Detention Complex for close to seven months:

The Associated Press interviews Migrant Center immigration attorney Sara Ramey and her client Josefina who has been separated from her son and detained at the South Texas Detention Complex for close to seven months:

The National Catholic Reporter interviews Migrant Center Executive Director Sara Ramey and one of our clients who is fleeing domestic violence:

The Associated French Press interviews Migrant Center immigration attorney Sara Ramey and speaks with two of the forcibily separated children and family sponsors of her clients, moms who are being refused their release from detention solely due to previous deportation orders, despite establishing they have a significant possibility of winning their cases for protection in the U.S.:

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The San Antonio Express News interviews Migrant Center immigration attorney Sara Ramey about the difficulty her clients are facing getting released from the South Texas Detention Complex to be reunited with their children:

KENS 5 interviews Migrant Center Executive Director on the right to seek asylum in the United States:

The San Antonio Express News speaks with one of our separated moms who is making her third attempt to be released from detention and reunited with her son:

The San Antonio Current speaks with Migrant Center Executive Director about the difficulty of preparing an immigration case from inside detention and the conditions at the South Texas Detention Complex:

Board Member Jodi Goodwin speaks with the press about the separated families she’s working with on the border:

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Oklar framtid för barn som separerats från, Aftonbladet, June, 2018

Perheistään erotettujen siirtolaislasten palauttamisesta syntyy valtava sotku Yhdysvalloissa, ESS, June 2018

O Globo quotes Executive Director [in Portuguese]:

https://oglobo.globo.com/mundo/depressao-infantil-abusos-compoem-historias-de-detencao-familiar-nos-eua-22808598

Global Sisters Report quotes Executive Director on why it is never an illegal entry when someone comes to the U.S. seeking asylum:

Immigrant families endure separation, court and uncertainty of ‘zero tolerance’, Global Sisters Report, June 20, 2018

Associated French Press quotes Executive Director on how forced family separation constitutes enforced disappearance and torture under international and domestic law:

Fear of Separation Shadows Immigrant Families Crossing US Border, Associated French Press, June 17, 2018

KENS 5 interviews forcibly separated mother and Migrant Center Executive Director on the right to seek asylum in the United States:

Immigration advocates demanding change after some asylum seekers are separated from families, KENS 5, June 9, 2018

CNN quotes our Executive Director on how family separation is never necessary and how alternatives to detention exist:

Mom and 4 children forced to separate after seeking asylum in US, CNN, June 5, 2018

Executive Director offers testimony on family separation before the Texas Legislature Mexican American Legislative Caucus [June 5, 2018]:

KENS 5 interviews our Executive Director about the work of the Migrant Center [June 3, 2018]:

The San Francisco Chronicle quotes our Executive Director on how the Attorney General, in eliminating administrative closure and directing government prosecutors to seek recalendaring in previously closed cases, is effectively increasing the Immigration Court backlog to over a million cases:

Sessions takes key authority away from immigration judges, San Francisco Chronicle, May 17, 2018

Telemundo San Antonio interviews our Executive Director on the 10.00pm news [May 17, 2018]:

The San Antonio Express News quotes our Executive Director on Sunday’s front page on some of the difficulties attorneys face meeting with their clients detained in Pearsall and the need for more transparency in ICE parole decisions of asylum seekers who turn themselves in at the border, as well as the need for judicial review of those decisions:

Ghana man seeking asylum sits two years in detention, San Antonio Express News, March 9, 2018

The San Antonio Express News quotes our Executive Director on the challenges faced by asylum seekers in detention, including the pressure placed on asylum seekers due to difficult detention conditions, language barriers, and access to counsel challenges, including for indigent asylum seekers:

DHS officials in San Antonio call for tighter asylum laws, San Antonio Express News, February 1, 2018