Elaine Ayala

1 week ago | expressnews.com | Elaine Ayala

It didn't take long to deport Jackie Cardenas. For the San Antonio wife, mother of two and stepmother to her husband Robert Joseph Cardenas' 19-year-old son, it took about 10 hours. That morning in mid-March, she left her Northeast Side home, got in her car and set off to her waitressing job at the Molino Rojo Café on Nacogdoches Road, where she had worked for 13 years. Article continues below this adSoon after she left, she was pulled over.

2 weeks ago | star-telegram.com | Elaine Ayala

Blame Chip Roy. The hard-right Republican congressman who represents parts of San Antonio and Austin introduced a bill in Congress that, if passed, will up-end the way citizens register to vote and cast ballots. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE, will save only the Republicans and a political party long at work trying to suppress U.S. voting rights. It will require that voters present proof of citizenship in person. Again, blame Chip Roy.

2 weeks ago | expressnews.com | Elaine Ayala

The hard-right Republican congressman who represents parts of San Antonio and Austin introduced a bill in Congress that, if passed, will up-end the way citizens register to vote and cast ballots. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE, will save only the Republicans and a political party long at work trying to suppress U.S. voting rights. Article continues below this adIt will require that voters present proof of citizenship in person. Again, blame Chip Roy.

2 weeks ago | expressnews.com | Elaine Ayala

It was just an electrical outlet cover, a piece of old plastic that once covered a bundle of wires hiding behind a wall of sheetrock. At the time, it cost less than a dime. But in this art saga, the little piece of plastic was part of a major artwork painted on a bedroom wall in the early 1970s by one of San Antonio's most famous artists.

3 weeks ago | star-telegram.com | Elaine Ayala

Rose Garcia learned first-hand how to advocate for people in need from one of the city's hardest-working organizers, her father Atanacio Garcia. He was a man whose clipboard was already well-worn by the time he joined Communities Organized for Public Service, now COPS Metro Alliance, a force that grew out of the city's Catholic parishes. She remembers canvassing West Side neighborhoods with her dad, knocking on doors and talking.