If you need a some inspiration heading into this weekend, you need to read this recent feature in Westword magazine. The article highlights the amazing work being done by Sarah Jackson, founder of Casa de Paz, a nonprofit that provides housing, meals, visits, and transportation to families affected by immigrant detention. We should also add that Sarah Jackson was recently honored by the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN) for her work to support immigrants.
Below is an excerpt from the article, to read the full piece, click here.
“The experience that had the biggest impact on Jackson, though, was meeting a man named Abel on the Mexican side of the border. Abel had grown up in the United States, and as far as he was concerned, Mexico was a foreign country. He only spoke English, and he hadn’t known that he was undocumented until he went to get a driver’s license at the age of sixteen.
“So they were deporting him ‘back home,’ but his home was the United States, because his parents brought him here when he was a child,” Jackson says.”