Accompaniment & Faithful Resistance
Compas at the Gates of ICE
We walk with people targeted by the immigration system. We stand with them during ICE check-ins, court dates, and other required appointments. We offer steady presence, care, and support in moments of fear and uncertainty.
We share know-your-rights information. We connect people with legal support. We work to prevent detention whenever possible.
We believe no one should be held in detention or torn from their community. When rights are violated, we document and report it.
We stand with people in systems that separate families and try to push people out of sight.
Compas Guatemala
Compas Guatemala is Casa Alterna’s accompaniment ministry for deported migrants and their families in Guatemala City.
Outside the military airstrip where deportation flights arrive from the United States, families often wait for hours—or even days—unsure if or when their loved ones will emerge. Many arrive carrying debt, exhaustion, confusion, and the emotional weight of separation. Deportees frequently step off planes with little more than the clothes they are wearing, their shoelaces removed during detention.
Compas Guatemala meets families there with hospitality and presence.
Led by Casa Alterna’s Guatemala-based coordinator, Jacky Medrano—herself formerly deported—the program provides water, snacks, emotional support, detainee locator assistance, referrals, and compassionate accompaniment during moments of uncertainty and reunification.
The program is rooted in a simple belief: no one should return home alone or in shame.
What began through relationships formed over many years has grown into a cross-border ministry of radical hospitality. By accompanying families at one of the most vulnerable moments in the migration journey, Compas Guatemala seeks to restore dignity, strengthen connection, and remind people they are not forgotten.