This is a slap in the face. Today, on international Human Rights Day, the Trump Administration finalized the biggest rollback of asylum in recent history. You probably remember us talking […]
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You Can Help HRI Spread Joy This Holiday Season
HRI is excited to announce this year’s Holiday Wish celebration: from November 9 to December, HRI will collect donations to support families with gift cards to purchase gifts and food. […]
Read MoreURGENT: Calls to Prevent Cameroonian Deportations
The calls to try to stop the deportation of the Cameroonians from Prairieland Detention Center are working–earlier today, members of the Congressional Black Caucus and Hispanic Caucus issued a letter […]
Read MoreAction Alert: Help stop Round 2 of Cameroonian Deportations
Remember when we wrote 3 weeks ago because the US was sending Cameroonian asylum seekers home to certain danger? Unfortunately, it’s about to happen again. We need your help. Once […]
Read MoreRaise Your Voice: Survivors Shouldn’t Have to Wait a Decade for Safety
We need your help raising the alarm. You already know that every day in Texas, strength and hope is prevailing. That undocumented survivors of crime are coming forward to protect […]
Read MoreRaise Your Voice Today
Make Sure Electeds Hear Our Clients. “This Pandemic has taught us, above all else, that we are all fragile, that we are all equal, and that life and the ability to share it is most important.” These are words from an HRI client–a mother of two. She and her husband, like many families, are struggling to keep a roof over their head and their children fed in this crisis. At HRI–with the generous help of our supporters–are working to support them as best we can. But this community cannot do it alone. It’s time for the government to step up.
Read MoreHRI Creates Online Campaign To Fortify Our Most Vulnerable Clients
Along with the rest of the world, HRI has been watching the COVID-19 situation as it evolves. Each passing day brings new developments and challenges as under the best circumstances, […]
Read MoreAnchor in Safety
These two! Sweet, loving, hardworking parents of polite, studious children – finally safe from persecution – finally able to breathe easy…Founded by social worker Serena Simmons Connelly and lawyer Elizabeth […]
Read MoreNew Fee Structure for Asylum Seekers
In a memorandum signed Monday, the current administration called upon the departments of Justice and Homeland Security, giving them 90 days to implement a fee structure that will charge asylum-seekers […]
Read MoreHUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE IS HIRING!
Office Manager (Full-time, exempt, with benefits) Organization Mission: Human Rights Initiative of North Texas (“HRI”) provides legal and support services to refugees and immigrants who have suffered human rights abuses, […]
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