Meet Casey Revkin of Each Step Home

Today we’d like to introduce you to Casey Revkin.

Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
In 2018, when I heard that the Trump administration was separating families, I just knew I had to do something. I’ve been finding ways to help migrant children ever since.

The first little girl I helped get released from detention was 4 years old when she separated from her grandmother at the border. Her mother, already in the U.S., couldn’t afford the $50 fee to print and fax the application for her daughter to be released to her. It broke my heart that a difference of $50 was keeping this child in a facility when she could have been with her family.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Immigration policy has changed many times over the last eight years. At Each Step Home we often have to shift our focus to new areas where we can make a difference.

Currently we are focused on the children in ICE detention in Dilley, TX. In Dilley Immigration Processing Center–the only ICE facility holding families and children–children get rashes from the soap, sick from the water, and the food is so bad many of them are losing weight. Families depend on the commissary for the most basic items.

At Each Step Home we have been filling the commissary accounts of the families at Dilley. There’s no humane way to detain a child. The ultimate goal is to end ICE detention of children. But until that happens, we can make their time in detention a little brighter.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
Each Step Home is a nonprofit dedicated to helping all children harmed by U.S. immigration policy. Primarily we fight for detained migrant children. I’m proud of the thousands of families we have reunited.

Is there something surprising that you feel even people who know you might not know about?
I love Star Trek, and so much of my work helping children is inspired by its utopian vision of the future.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://eachstephome.org
• Instagram: @eachstephome
• Facebook: https://Facebook.com/eachstephome