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The Texas RioGrande Aid (TRLA) is anon profit agency that specializes in providing free legal services to the low-income disadvantaged indigenous residents of Central, South and West Texas. TRLA’s mission is to promote the dignity, self-sufficiency, safety, and stability of low-income Texans by providing high quality legal services and related educational services. This blog offers the lates news and updates from Texas RioGrande Legal Aid.
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From Kevin Dietz, attorney at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid: On behalf of the team of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) lawyers and support staff who represented 38 mothers whose children were taken in the Eldorado raid, thank you to the Texas Lawyer for recognizing TRLA as the “2008 Impact Player...
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As the Bush Administration enters its final weeks, pressure is building to halt construction of the Department of Homeland Security’s unfinished US-Mexico border wall. The controversial project, which was originally slated to be completed by December 31 of this year, is the target of reinvigorated o...
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All TRLA offices will be closed on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Offices will re-open for normal business hours on Friday, January 2, 2009. All TRLA offices will be closed on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Offices will re-open f...
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TRLA is set up on several social networking sites. If you haven’t visited us already, check us out on the following websites: TRLA is set up on several social networking sites. If you haven’t visited us already, check us out on the f...
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The Corpus Christi Caller Times has posted photos from the eighth annual National Homeless Person’s Memorial Day Sunrise service that was held earlier this month. Texas RioGrande Legal Aid was among several organizations participating in the service. To view the photos, click...
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Texas child welfare authorities say 12 girls from the Fundamentalist LDS Church’s YFZ Ranch are confirmed victims of sexual abuse and neglect because they were married at ages ranging from 12 to 15. Those are among the conclusions reached in a final investigation into the raid that resulted...
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A Texas Child Protective Services investigation has found that of the 439 children removed from the Yearning for Zion ranch in West Texas earlier this year, 275 were abused or neglected. The final report released Tuesday said that 12 girls were victims of sexual abuse because they entered...
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Former TRLA clients, James and Patricia Bishop, recently spoke to NPR about the value of having legal aid available to clients who cannot afford an attorney. Their story is part of a larger look at how legal aid funding is declining across the country. To listen to the story or read the ...
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A man recruited in Brownsville to help clean up Galveston after Hurricane Ike filed a lawsuit on Monday alleging that a Houston company didn’t pay him all of his wages. People working on behalf of USA Environment, a waste and cleanup company, recruited Jose Lucio, 50, of Brownsville, from a...
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Federal Emergency Management Agency officials planning to go home for the holidays want a federal judge to delay hearings on a lawsuit filed by 14 families still waiting for home repair assistance since July’s Hurricane Dolly, family attorneys said. Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid says FEMA wants...