** Border Angels Weekly Newsletter
------------------------------------------------------------

Our community is resilient, but we are hurting.

We say enough.

Our words carry power to heal and to unite. Our words may carry hate just as it may carry love. We chose love. Our love is active. When we drop water at the desert we do so with love and we transmit that love onto a fellow human being equally deserving of life, dignity and respect. Even while others chose hate and use our water jugs as target practice for their guns, we chose forgiveness.

It is because of this administration’s hateful rhetoric that we see our Latinx community constantly attacked. When our leaders speak from a place of hate and fear of the other, those words lead to hateful acts, and ultimately lead to hate crimes. When our administration portray Muslims, Blacks, Latinxs as people to fear, then white supremacists are empowered to act on their hate and terrorize our most vulnerable communities.

When our leaders like the Chief of Border Patrol, Rodney Scott, openly refers to undocumented migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border as home invaders, he is painting a picture of fear of our neighbors to the south. Scott admittedly trains his officers using these words grounded on hate. Therefore, when these officers find themselves patrolling our bordertown, they have already instilled in their brain the image of a dangerous invader when encountering people that look like my father. What do our federal agents do when they find themselves alone in the middle of the night, armed, when no one is looking, and they find an undocumented immigrant crossing the desert?

When it is our leaders spouting hate, this becomes systemic. Our leaders have painted our community as less than human, undeserving of dignity and respect. This hate has led to family separation, kids encaged, deaths in concentration camps, deaths at our deserts, deaths in our oceans, and mass shootings. Deaths.

We must not normalize hate. Love must win. We must show love for others in an active form.

We have hope that love will win because more of us are changing the language that we use when speaking of our most vulnerable populations. More and more of us are willing to stretch a hand and meet those of different races, nationalities, skin color, and religion from ours.

For every white supremacist, there are hundreds of us acting with love. Love will win. - Dulce Garcia


** Job Opportunity
------------------------------------------------------------


** Past Events
------------------------------------------------------------

Thank you Luis, Fernando, Gabby , Lily and Hannah for covering our Border Angels booth at the UnidosUS conference.

Interim Director Dulce Garcia with Janet Murguia President and CEO of Unidos US
Thank you Dulce Garcia and Andres Pina for leading a successful educational water drop with Lamba Theta Phi Fraternity.

***Update***
We helped family with the identification of the body, travel arrangements and some funeral expenses.As of today 9 day ceremony is ongoing.
Still need help with expenses. Thank you to everyone that has donated.

RIP Albino Anduezar Galvez
Albino was an 18 year old attempting to cross the desert but never made it, unfortunately he passed away due to dehydration from the high desert temperatures.

For more information on how to donate to the family to help cover funeral/burial cost
email [email protected] call Salvador at (619) 453-4122.
Volunteer today! Click here to fill out the volunteer application ([link removed][UNIQID])


** San Diego
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed][UNIQID]

Know Your Rights Community Defense Workshop
[link removed][UNIQID]

Save the date & stop by our booth!


** Tijuana
------------------------------------------------------------

============================================================

Fundraisers

Please help and support our Tijuana program director, Hugo Castro and his family during this difficult time. He has helped us in everything we do and this is our way of giving back!
** #RobertoCastroPerezPresente ([link removed][UNIQID])
** [link removed][UNIQID] ([link removed][UNIQID])

HUMANO Mexico's first Human Rights Film Festival is a non profit Film Festival set in Tijuana Mexico, a few steps from the USA/Mex Border . HUMANO received more of '3200 films in the last 6 weeks on the platform Filmfreeway. Filmmakers from more than 122 countries reached out to us and causing us to break international records on submission of a First time Film festival.

HUMANO Film Festival does not charge any fees to submit or screen Films, instead we promote and reward the Filmmakers who feature short films that advance issues related to Human Rights. HUMANO welcomes productions that speak to stories of humans experiencing violations of rights as a human and productions that examine the rights of: access to our planet, ethnic groups, education access, equity, health access, gender inequality, migration challenges, racism, xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia and other obstacles that impede a dignified and balanced life across the human spectrum.

We are looking for your support to give to each of the winners a prize to keep making films that contribute on a social impact and to support the new generations of Artivism. With your help they will be able to keep fighting for the freedom of speech . At the same time we are launching HUMANO Cinema Movil to bring Movies and Art lessons to shelters and indigenous groups over The Border.
** [link removed][UNIQID] ([link removed][UNIQID])
Saturday August 17, 2019 3pm-6pm
At this community-building event co-hosted by four churches of different denominations (how often does that happen?!), we'll enjoy music, taste great wines, and make new friends!

Your $20 donation includes 2 glasses of wine + wine tastings, light hors d'oeurves, and live music by Ruby Clouds a Rock/RnB sibling duo from San Ysidro / Tijuana.

All proceeds from this event will go to support the water drop program through Border Angels, to leave water jugs in the desert along high-traffic migrant paths. Why? Because since 1994, more than 11,000 have died making this journey. Their main cause of death? Dehydration.

Tickets here $20: ** [link removed][UNIQID] ([link removed][UNIQID])

** [link removed][UNIQID] ([link removed][UNIQID])
“We will be using the donations to help provide resources and items to the migrants over the border who are in need. We work with many shelters in Tijuana. We do our best to provide support and care for the men, women, and children in the shelters. Border Angels has expanded to conduct humanitarian work for migrants and advocates for human rights, humane immigration reform, and social justice. Our work is aimed at reducing the number of lives lost along the U.S.-Mexico border: people who are seeking a better life, basic sustenance for their family, or freedom from poverty and violence.”
** [link removed][UNIQID] ([link removed][UNIQID])

Run for the humane treatment of immigrants
My name is Gerardo and I am running the Bank of America Chicago Marathon this year to help raise money for the non-profit Border Angels. Border Angels is a wonderful organization based out of San Diego and Tijuana that helps advocate for human rights, humane immigration reform, as well as social justice. Some of the services that they provide include free immigration consultations, educational programs, water drops, day labor outreach, and Caravans of Love. I chose this cause because the recent treatment of immigrants by the government is inhumane and this organization is doing their part to help at this trying time. I ask you to please take the time to donate to this cause. Thank you.
** [link removed][UNIQID] ([link removed][UNIQID])

Currently needed items at the Tijuana Shelters
Donations may be mailed at our
office located at 2258 island Ave, San Diego Ca 92102

A friendly reminder that we also have registries online where you can purchase items and have them shipped to our main office at 2258 Island Ave San Diego, CA 92102!! Links down below (:

Amazon:
** [link removed]… ([link removed][UNIQID])

Target:
** [link removed]… ([link removed][UNIQID])

Walmart:
** [link removed]… ([link removed][UNIQID])

Media

Latinos in border community express fear, disgust over anti-immigrant rhetoric that led to El Paso shooting
** [link removed][UNIQID] ([link removed][UNIQID])
For asylum-seekers, dreams of a new life in the U.S. stall in TijuanaBEYOND THE BORDER
** [link removed][UNIQID] ([link removed][UNIQID])
For Asylum-Seekers, Dreams of a New Life in the U.S. Stall in Tijuana
** [link removed][UNIQID] ([link removed][UNIQID])
A Journalist Knew That An Undocumented Comatose Man Had To Be Conscious And Went
On A Wild Chase To Find His Family
** [link removed][UNIQID] ([link removed][UNIQID])

Sounds Like San Diego
** [link removed][UNIQID] ([link removed][UNIQID])

Merchandise

For purchase information contact [email protected] or
visit us at our office located at 2258 Island Ave, San Diego Ca 92102

Border Angels Water Bottles $20

"Love has no Borders" Short sleeve t-shirt (Color purple currently in stock) $20

Amor, Si Se Puede Chicano park Mural Poster $20

"The power of One" Border Angels Book $ 30
www.borderangels.org
2258 Island Ave, San Diego Ca 92102

This email was sent to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
why did I get this? ([link removed]) unsubscribe from this list ([link removed]) update subscription preferences ([link removed])
Border Angels . Border Angels P.O.BOX 86598 . San Diego, Ca 92101 . USA