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Headquartered in Texas and with national reach, RAICES, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formally known as the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, promotes migrant justice by providing legal services, social services case management, and rights advocacy for immigrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking people and families.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is a program of the Administration for Children and Families, an office within the United States Department of Health and Human Services, created with the passing of the United States Refugee Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-212).
HIAS (founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society [5]) is a Jewish American nonprofit organization that provides humanitarian aid and assistance to refugees. It was established on November 27, 1881, originally to help the large number of Russian Jewish immigrants to the United States who had left Europe to escape antisemitic persecution and violence. [1]
Global Refuge, formerly known as Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, [2] is a non-profit organization that supports refugees and migrants entering the United States. It is one of nine refugee resettlement agencies working with the Office of Refugee Resettlement [3] and one of two that serves unaccompanied refugee minors. [4]
Two KISD parents expressed concerns at February’s school board meeting, but their claims turned out to be unfounded.
West Houston Medical Center is located on West Houston Center Blvd. The current location was constructed in 1985. [36] [37] West Houston Medical Center is an HCA member hospital. [125] The facility has 410 physicians, 742 total employees, [125] and 195 beds. [126]
USCRI traces its history back to 1911 with the founding of the early International Institutes and Travelers’ Aid societies. The early 1900s was a time of incredible growth for the immigrant population of the United States, by 1910, three-quarters of New York City’s population was either an immigrant or a first generation American. This increase in the immigrant population, as well as increa
In 2006 H-E-B opened the "Mi Tienda" ("My Store") Hispanic-themed store in the City of South Houston, [14] near Pasadena. As of 2007 all of its employees spoke Spanish. [16] Another Mi Tienda opened in north Houston in 2011; it is twice the size of the original location, [17] and has 97,000 square feet (9,000 m 2) of space. [18]