The San Antonio-based Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, also known as RAICES, is laying off 158 people this week in response to Trump administration funding cuts, the Express-News reports.
The latest round of layoffs was sparked by the cancellation of contracts that funded services for unaccompanied migrant children, RAICES attorney Jack Merinar told the daily. The nonprofit hasn’t yet filed with the state of Texas to formally announce the staff reduction, records show.
The Trump administration’s decision to end the contract left RAICES with an “eight-figure funding gap that cannot be reasonably and sustainably replaced in full,” the organization’s CEO, Dolores Schroeder told the Dallas Morning News.
The latest layoffs at RAICES — Texas’ largest immigrant legal-aid nonprofit — follow the organization handing pink slips to 61 employees in February, as reported by the Current.
Prior to the Trump administration yanking federal funding for immigrant aid services, RAICES worked on 10,000 cases annually throughout Texas, according to the nonprofit’s website.
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