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You deserve all the flowers🌸🌼🌻💐🌷
Your steadfast support is a warm comfort during challenging times. Your belief empowers us to surpass boundaries and achieve the extraordinary. Thank you for making a significant impact!
This month alone we posted the 125th bond through the Families Reunidas Bond Program, we had a Water Drop where we left water and life-saving packages in the desert, distributed care packages and moral support to Day Laborers, and visited one of the sixteen shelters we support in Tijuana to provide them with groceries, hygiene products, clothes and more!
Join our family of monthly donors at Border Angels and make a real difference! Your consistent support can provide vital aid to migrant families in need. We're so grateful for your generosity. It's the lifeline that keeps our mission going. Let's continue to change lives together!
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We are ecstatic to announce we have officially posted 125 bonds through the Familias Reunidas bond program! Jorge is a 31-year-old migrant from Venezuela, he spent 3 months inside the Otay Mesa Detention Center. With your continued support, he was able to be reunited with his family!
This work could not have been done without the combined efforts of Daniella and the National Bail Fund Network. We appreciate their continued trust and referrals to free local individuals. The National Bail Fund Network is made up of over ninety community bail and bond funds across the country. They regularly update this listing of community bail funds that are freeing people by paying bail/bond and are also fighting to abolish the money bail system and pretrial detention.
If your loved one is in the Otay Mesa, Adelanto, or Imperial Regional Detention Center and you need assistance paying for their bond, you can fill out an application here.
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This month we had one of our largest volunteer groups join our Water Drop. We had 28 participants join us, including our board president Luis Osuna. With their help, and along with our safety monitors, we were able to distribute water, socks, beanies, and other life-saving supplies along several routes in the desert.
We are especially touched that one of our volunteers shared he crossed the desert on his migration journey 20 years ago. He mentioned that he is proud to participate and know so many young folks are involved in this type of humanitarian work, as he desperately wished he would have found water and sustenance when he crossed so many years ago.
Our work in the desert started in the hopes of preventing death, and hoping it would reach those in need, never really getting to meet them. So many times, we see clues, consumed water bottles and food cans, and to hear stories like this one encourages to continue this important work.
Our upcoming Water Drop sign-up links will be posted soon. For more information, you can email our coordinator at [email protected].
Cuidate mucho (Take care of yourself)
Border Angels
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This month, the Caravan of Love visited Jesucristo Vive shelter in Tijuana. This shelter houses Haitian migrant families. We spent the day learning about the political and economic hardships currently affecting Haiti, and about the incredible and tough migration journeys many of these families have had to experience as a result of that. We appreciate the shelter's warm welcome and are glad we were able to provide a small but meaningful point of support for them.
We want to also give a special shoutout to Yvette from United Talent, who spent the week volunteering throughout our various events, as part of the company’s charitable sabbatical program. We are so grateful for her time and their donation! We are honored to work with companies that provide these opportunities for their employees, but especially with amazing people like Yvette.
The Caravan of Love, like many of our programs, is so special and meaningful largely because of the volunteers, who constantly teach and remind us about the power of kindness. We cannot thank our volunteers enough for spending a Saturday helping us hand-deliver so many donations to migrant families and as always the amazing team from Psicologos Sin Fronteras, B.C. for their guidance and support.
For more information, or to participate in the upcoming month's Caravan of Love, email our coordinator at [email protected].
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Thank you Alt-Breaks San Diego/Tijuana
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This week we had a Water Drop with Alternative Breaks San Diego - Tijuana, a group of 8 students who attend UC Berkeley. Two of them are returning students and Alt Break Leaders, Alondra and Daniel. All of these students joined because they had personal connections to the work, and wanted to be able to provide support for the migrant communities we serve. We are so grateful for their initiative in learning about border issues, policy and humanitarian work.
We were able to leave gallons of water and survival packages, with socks, canned food, gloves, beanies, hand warmers, and handkerchiefs in the desert. They also joined us for a Day Laborer Outreach!
If your school/group/organization would like to join us or find out what other educational opportunities are available please email our coordinator at ana@borderangels.org today.
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We are so grateful to ProduceGood for donating several bags of oranges they hand-picked that morning! Our partnerships across San Diego and the US allow us to serve and support as many migrants, refugees and asylum seekers as we can.
ProduceGood is a food recovery nonprofit serving San Diego's food insecure. They source extra produce from farmer's markets, grocery stores, backyard orchards, and farms to be distributed to pantries, shelters, resource centers, and other organizations (like us) that serve San Diego's food insecure.
You can learn more about ProduceGood here.
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Sign-up now for our March Water Drop! This volunteer event will take place Saturday, April 13th. Join us as we drop off water and other life-saving items in the desert.
More details about the event will be provided once you are selected to join. This event is on a first-come, first-serve basis as we limit our events based on the need for the drops. Filling out this form does not guarantee a spot.
We hope to see you there! 
For any questions or more info email osvaldo@borderangels.org or call the office at 619-487-0249.
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We’re looking for volunteers to join the Caravan of Love on
Saturday, April. This event requires volunteers to drive and cross over into Tijuana to help deliver necessities and moral support to migrant shelters in need. Help spread the love to migrant families and children.
Requirements to participate:
Passport/SENTRI/Appropriate travel documents
Donations for shelter (list on 2nd and 3rd slide)
Reliable transportation to drive into Tijuana and deliver donations
Signed volunteer waiver.
Volunteer spots are limited and on a first come first served basis. For any questions regarding this event please contact us at [email protected].
We can’t wait to see you!
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Schedule a Donation Drop-Off
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Due to limited storage space we will be receiving physical donations by appointment only. Appointments are available Monday-Friday from 9AM to 3PM.
Call us or email us to schedule today at 619-487-0240 or [email protected].
Drop off donations at our office located at the Sherman Heights Community Center at 2258 Island Ave. San Diego, CA 92102. We do not accept used clothing donations.
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Drownings at US-Mexico border up 3,200% since Trump raised wall – report
Thirty-three people attempting to cross the US border drowned in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego after the Trump administration nearly doubled the height of the walls along the southern border, a staggering increase from previous years.
The number of drownings rose by 3,200% from 2020 to 2023, compared to 2016 to 2019, when just one person drowned, according to a study published this week. By 2019 the Trump administration had elevated the barriers around San Diego from 17ft to 30ft.
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Bridge collapse brings stark reminder of immigrant workers’ vulnerabilities
Last March, a speeding car plowed between highway barriers on the same Baltimore highway and killed six workers, including Villatoro’s husband and brother-in-law. That crash along Interstate 695 was about 20 miles from the bridge. Now, a massive ship stacked with containers had crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing its collapse. Six workers, all native to Latin America, were lost in the Patapsco River and presumed dead.
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We have everything from t-shirts, to totes, to water bottles! All merchandise purchases go towards our programs and life-saving work.
Visit our online shop here.
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Make a difference and donate today!
Visit our website: www.borderangels.org
Please make checks payable to:
Border Angels
2258 Island Ave
San Diego, CA 92102
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