FIEL Houston
an immigrant-led organization
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FIEL and director Cesar Espinosa cited by Texas Standard in recent coverage of ICE activity.
The Texas Standard turned to FIEL and director Cesar Espinosa to gauge the recent increase in ICE activity in Texas and across the U.S. “New data shows 1 in 4 ICE arrests happened in Texas under Trump’s immigration crackdown,” write the editors. Cesar Espinosa, executive director of the immigration activist group FIEL in Houston, said
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Houston Chronicle features Cesar Espinosa: “From Dreamer to founder of FIEL.”
We can’t share the Houston Chronicle story on Cesar Espinosa in its entirety (please click here to read the article on the paper’s website). But here’s a snippet from Raquel Natalicchio’s feature: FIEL’s impact is measured not just in legal victories but in human stories. Stories like that of a father deported under one administration,
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Why I will march on April 10th 2013
This morning as I was driving into the office I saw a group of workers, with lunch boxes in had, running down the street on their way to a popular day laborer corner. It reminded me of the days when I worked as a day laborer organizer… What an eye opening experience. to hear the stories the
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The Reality of Being Undocumented March 17, 2011 Being ‘undocumented’ is exactly what it sounds like. It means, being without documents, thus being without a name, without a home. It means being without a documented past, without a present or future to document. Nonexistent almost, yet for the past couple of years, the undocumented youth
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