Houstonians Team Up to Help Immigrants Released From ICE Custody

Style Magazine Newswire | 8/3/2018, 8:14 a.m.
As immigrant families released from ICE custody pass through Houston, a group of local women are helping them as they …

Source: Fox26Houston.com

As immigrant families released from ICE custody pass through Houston, a group of local women are helping them as they head to their final destinations and beyond.

Over the weekend, Dionne Ukleja and volunteers gathered travel essentials in bags to give to more than 100 parents and children at the Greyhound bus terminal downtown. The volunteers also gave away clothes, shoes, and car seats. Powers and Ukleja also created the website AyudaFamilias.org to pull together resources from across the country to help the families as they go through asylum process. The network also hopes to connect immigrants to other resources such as mental health specialists, doctors, and transportation. Ukleja says they’re looking for volunteers who can serve as cultural guides for the families as they adjust to their new lives in the United States.

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