Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center

Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center Las Americas was born on May 1, 1987 to answer the needs of a large influx of Central Americans who sought refuge in El Paso. Mr. Las Americas was born with Mr.

Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, a non-profit organization, provides high quality legal representation for the most vulnerable immigrants - battered women, low income immigrants, and refugees seeking asylum. This international migration flow was first noticed by Ruben Garcia, director of Annunciation House, an El Paso immigrant shelter. Men, women and children arrived at Annunciation House

, having fled war-torn Central American countries. They were seeking asylum, a long and complicated process that the staff at the shelter tried to facilitate by recruiting pro bono lawyers to represent the refugees. The Annunciation House staff also started to go to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (predecessor to Immigration and Customs Enforcement) detention center to help asylum seekers who were detained. Eventually, however, the staff was overwhelmed. It became obvious that trained legal assistance was needed to help the refugees. Garcia consulted with Dan Kesselbrenner of the National Immigration Project, Daniel Katz of Proyecto Libertad in Harlingen, Texas, and with local church and civic leaders to create a legal assistance office for asylum seekers in El Paso. Garcia as the first board president. Executive directors included Tom Spaniolo, Delia Gomez, Sister Liliane Alam, Ray Rojas and Cathy Chilsholm (interim). By the mid-1990’s, Las Americas began to assist children and women detained by the INS through its Justice for Women and Children Project. Las Americas also started representing battered immigrant women under the Battered Immigrant Women Project. In 2002, Las Americas moved to its own building at 1500 E. Yandell Drive. Today, Las Americas continues to be one of very few non-profit legal service providers to assist low-income immigrants in the El Paso region.

📢 Thank you, State Bar of Texas Foundation!
04/28/2026

📢 Thank you, State Bar of Texas Foundation!

While .marcus.9 is most recognized for his love of our borderland region conveyed through art, he also demonstarted that...
04/14/2026

While .marcus.9 is most recognized for his love of our borderland region conveyed through art, he also demonstarted that love through acts of service for humanitarian and immigrant rights. Here he is serving as a celebrity waiter at a fundraiser. Gracias, Hal. For everything.

We stand with survivors. Full stop.
03/19/2026

We stand with survivors. Full stop.

Want to take your fight for immigrant rights to the next level? Join Las Americas and submit an application for board se...
03/12/2026

Want to take your fight for immigrant rights to the next level? Join Las Americas and submit an application for board service. Contact [email protected] for more information.

02/17/2026

“Somos un pueblo unido,” shared our executive director, Marisa Limón Garza, this weekend, emphasizing the power of unity as we confront the Trump administration’s harmful policies targeting Black and brown immigrants.

Love is resistance. This Valentine’s Day, I’m standing with immigrants and rejecting the violence and dehumanization the...
02/09/2026

Love is resistance. This Valentine’s Day, I’m standing with immigrants and rejecting the violence and dehumanization they face every day. Join me in taking action and demanding dignity for all.

Today we joined community leaders and elected officials, organized by , for a press conference to denounce the alarming ...
01/16/2026

Today we joined community leaders and elected officials, organized by , for a press conference to denounce the alarming escalation of ICE activity against border communities.

“New data released today show that more than 73,000 individuals were facing deportation yesterday. This includes over 6,000 families. Never before has the U.S. government held so many people in immigration custody.

“Here in El Paso, we see the human cost of these policies every single day. We see parents torn from their children, families living in constant fear, and people who have built lives in this country suddenly treated as disposable. These are not numbers. They are our clients, our neighbors, and our loved ones,” shared Marisa Limon Garza, executive director at .

For many families, this holiday season carries uncertainty, grief, and change.We stand with immigrant communities becaus...
12/24/2025

For many families, this holiday season carries uncertainty, grief, and change.

We stand with immigrant communities because everyone deserves support, dignity, and community, especially now.

Thank you for helping make this holiday season a special whirlwind of merry-making and training.

12/20/2025

What’s happening at Camp East Montana at Fort Bliss is unconscionable and inhumane.

We’re proud to stand with and others to expose horrific abuses against detained immigrants—violence and sexual abuse by officers, coercion to force deportations, medical neglect, hunger, and denial of access to legal counsel.

Please think well of the students protesting the Border Czar’s speech at UTEP - The University of Texas at El Paso tonig...
12/04/2025

Please think well of the students protesting the Border Czar’s speech at UTEP - The University of Texas at El Paso tonight. They are courageous leaders in need of safety and support.

Students, immigration advocates and elected leaders are protesting former ICE director Tom Homan’s planned UTEP talk, criticizing his immigration record and urging support for affected families and communities.

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1500 E Yandell Drive
El Paso, TX
79902

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 4pm
Tuesday 9am - 4pm
Wednesday 9am - 4pm
Thursday 9am - 4pm

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+19155445126

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