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Texas is doubling down on immigration enforcement, aiming to transform state and local police into immigration agents while threatening neighbors who have families here, who have lived here for years, even those who have legal status.

Meet KB Brookins, one of our 2025–2026 artists-in-residence, whose work brings poetry, community storytelling, and visual art into conversations about pretrial detention and the harms of the cash bail system.

Millions of drivers are pulled over every year for minor violations like broken taillights or tinted windows. Data shows these stops rarely make roads safer, and instead lead to racial disparities, violence, and loss of trust in police.

Texas prisons are hard places to survive, and even harder to endure when your rights are being violated. Our "Civil Rights Resource Guide" helps ensure people aren’t left powerless — even behind bars.

Jailing Texans because they cannot afford bail violates norms of fairness and our constitutional right to due process.

The Trump administration's latest attack on our rights threatens our ability to defend ourselves from injustice. We won't stand for it.

We’re on the Hill this week telling Congress to fund real solutions

Being forced to remove religious headwear is devastating to our sense of dignity. The state has no role taking our religious freedom from us.

By Carolina Canizales, Senior Texas Strategist at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center