A LETTER FROM HRI’S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, BILL HOLSTON December 10 is Human Rights Day. It celebrates the day when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted. The very first article is: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and …
HRI Op-ed: Re-making the land of the free
By J. Ashley Gagné The Trump Administration’s policy of family separation has drawn intense and widespread criticism. Unconscionably, it represents just one strand of a broader agenda to systemically undermine protections for asylum seekers. This effort violates both national and international human-rights law, which prevent immigrants from being returned to …
Alicia Carrizales – ESL Instructor, HRI’s Social Services Department
If there was a photo of what it means to go above and beyond, it would be a photo of Alicia Carrizales. Even after the students leave, Alicia Carrizales stays. She wipes down the table tops, she collects all the supplies, she even takes the trash out. Pinched nerves, inclement …
