Good News from Waco, Texas: Two Baylor Students Create Area’s First Immigration Legal Aid Center

Viviana Triana, who is pursing a dual master’s degree in social work and divinity at Baylor University, and classmate Tihara Vargas, an Iraq war veteran, are attempting to set up a permanent legal service center in Waco, Texas to help immigrants. In the Central Texas area, there is no such center for immigrants. The idea for the local center was born out of an internship requirement for a social work course Triana and Vargas took this past semester. The Waco Immigrant Service Center is aimed at helping eligible immigrants apply for permanent residency and U.S. citizenship. Its other focus is on helping legal immigrants bring family members to the United States. Services are free. For the local center to survive beyond the women’s internship, which ends in of June, Triana said they must raise enough money to hire an attorney and find a permanent location.

For more details, click here.  Thanks to Cappy White for the assist!

CORRECTION: Dan Kowalski informs me that there is another immigration center “in the Central Texas area,”  PAPA, the Political Asylum Project of Austin (here), a full-service immigration center that just celebrated 20 years of serving immigrants.