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This holiday weekend further proved that especially during the summer we cannot take time off from the desert. Our limited group scouted a new location, dropped supplies and cleaned up over 20lbs. of trash.

We found a chilling scene of a barrel cactus that was chopped open by a piece of scrap metal found along the freeway. The inside of the cactus was consumed by the person(s) there who had taken whatever limited shade was available. Not more than a hundred feet away was a bottle that contained urine, presumed to be saved for liquid consumption in the most desperate of situations. This past week, it has been over 110° every day, and tomorrow we are headed out where it is expected to around 120°. With these extreme conditions, death in the desert has proven to be a reality, as we found out this week.

That is why we are out as much as we can. We are doing everything we possibly can to get supplies to where they are going. While right now we cannot take new volunteers out, we fill our weekly drops with members of our leadership team and then if there’s spots open we take volunteers who have been out to numerous drops with us. The summer and the extreme heat is not a safe time to learn and experience your first Water Drop.

ATTENTION: We bonded 7 people out of detention this week! That brings our total to 41 people free from Otay Mesa and Adelanto ICE detention! We are overjoyed and beyond grateful to all of the wonderful organizations that we have collaborated with, and to your amazing support. It is such a triumph to see the number of people we have freed and so many individuals reunited with their loved ones. Meet the two Mexican and Haitian asylum seekers we bonded above: Evens, Raul, and Jesus!

However this great achievement is bittersweet, as we have just learned another life was lost at a Milwaukee Detention Center. The ongoing threat of COVID inside detention centers is unforgiving, and while it may sound exaggerated, your donations and the Familias Reunidas Bond Program are literally saving lives. It cannot be stressed enough, just how important it is we get as many people out, as we have seen what happens to our folks when we do not. Evens, Raul and Jesus and the 38 others who, we have freed can attest to the nightmarish conditions ongoing in these detention centers.

How many more our folks have to parish for our legislators to pay attention? One life lost, is one life too many. We demand our folks in detention #FreeAnd ([link removed][UNIQID]) Alive. We demand our mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and community members are not forced to wait in such conditions simply for seeking a place or a part in this country. Evens, Raul and Jesus represent so many others being subject to racist and inhumane policies, who have seeked safety in our country and have instead been met with death and injustice.

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Shelter Aid Update:
We love to see shopping carts full with groceries headed back to our beloved migrant shelters.

Thanks to your continued support, we are happy to share rent, utilities, and groceries have been paid for another month! We miss our migrant friends in Tijuana so much, and continue to provide assistance in the most responsible ways possible, and cannot wait for the day we are able to be reunited.

We are especially grateful to your contributions, as one of the shelters we support now houses 15 pregnant women, and you are helping us make sure they stay strong healthy.

We will continue adapting our humanitarian aid to whatever challenge we face, and handle our migrant community with love and care as we always have. Gracias!

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** Trump says he would open a door to citizenship for 'dreamers', but can he?
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By Veronica Villafañe

"But immigration attorney Dulce García, who is a DACA beneficiary, says the president's statements have generated confusion and false expectations.

"The president cannot have this power to give us a hallway to the citizenry. That the president says that he is going to give us a corridor to the citizens, this is a lie or he does not know the basic laws that is the United States system where very clearly a law has to be through Congress, "said Garcia to the Voice of America ."

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Thank you so much to the San Diego Union Tribune for the recognition!!

Read a bit about our Executive Director Dulce Garcia and why she was chosen to be part of "Phenomenal San Diego Women in Advocacy and Empowerment".

"She came to this country when she was 4 and settled with her family into the shadow world of the unauthorized. Sleeping under someone’s kitchen table. Working jobs that paid her in cash. Dulce Garcia saved enough of that money to go to college, then law school, and works now as an immigration attorney and as executive director of the human-rights group Border Angels. She was one of the plaintiffs challenging the Trump administration decision — ruled unlawful last week by the U.S. Supreme Court — to end protections for her and thousands of other “dreamers,” people brought as children to the country illegally by their parents. “To live in America is to hope,” she told the Union-Tribune two years ago. “It’s what brought us to this country in the first place.”

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By Manuel Ocaño

"The executive director of Ángeles de la Frontera lawyer Dulce Miriam García, reported that as a representative of the organization she released four migrants on bail this Friday from the Otay Mesa detention center on the border with Tijuana.

He said that the Angeles de la Frontera migrant bond program has released 41 migrants so far this year, 37 of them from Otay Mesa and four more from the Adelanto, California, detention center.

Through funds provided by the community, the program requests that migrants be released on parole on bail.

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** Border Angels liberó 7 migrantes del centro de detención Otay Mesa
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"Through funds provided by the community, the program requests that migrants be released on parole on bail. When ICE or a court grants that possibility, Ángeles de la Frontera contributes up to $ 5,000 to secure liberties on bail. When the bond is above $ 5,000, the organization requests assistance from relatives of the migrants, if any in the United States, and from other organizations.

The migrants continue their asylum application process, but on parole without the risk of contracting Covid 19 at the Otay Mesa detention center, the one with the most infections in the country.

The Office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported that this Friday it has 172 migrants infected with Covid 19 at the Otay Mesa detention center, four of them in isolation. A migrant from the same center was killed by Covid 19 this spring."

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With our new Green Cards for Kids program, we are so lucky to be able to work with immigration attorney Fabiola Navarro who will be representing these children.

It is crucial that we help these children as they have already suffered enough abuse, neglect and/or abandonment.

With your continued support, we can help pay for the legal representation these children deserve in this critical time of their lives.

Please consider donating! No amount is too small!
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Despite the growing challenges of this pandemic, Border Angels remains determined to protect and support the community we have pledged to serve. Even though we are currently unable to accept physical donations, we are always accepting monetary donations to support:

1. Our Shelter Aid Program❤️: Especially now that we are unable to receive these items, we need your help to provide funds for groceries, hygiene products, utility bills, rent, clothes, etc.!

2. Familias Reunidas Bond Program👨‍👩‍👧: Given the severity of this outbreak, we NEED to get as many people out of the Otay Mesa Detention Center as we can. With your help we can post bond for more individuals! (Link in highlights under Bond Program)

3. Water Drop Program
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: Even after having to postpone public water drops, our team is still constantly in the desert scouting and dropping the supplies necessary for survival. Their work never stops because the need never stops.

Thank you for your continued support.🖤🦋
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Stay Informed!

The Trump Administration Has Reversed Its Ban On Foreign Students Taking All Classes Online

The controversial policy had sent thousands of international students into a panic as they risked being deported in the fall.

By Adolfo Flores & Hamed Aleaziz

"The Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded a controversial policy that would have revoked legal status for international students who planned to take classes entirely online in the fall as university campuses remain largely closed during the ** coronavirus ([link removed][UNIQID])
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Details of the administration’s rollback came during a court hearing over a challenge brought by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in federal court on Tuesday. According to a court order, both sides had reached an agreement to rescind the policy, which was announced by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week, sending thousands of students into a panic."

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A 51-Year-Old Immigrant Man From Mexico Has Died In ICE Custody After Testing Positive For COVID-19

The death comes more than a month after a Guatemalan man who tested positive for COVID-19 died in ICE custody.

By Adolfo Flores & Hamed Aleaziz

"Onoval Perez-Montufa, 51, had been in ICE custody since June 15 and was detained at the Glades County Detention Center in Florida before he died on Sunday, ICE said in a statement. Perez-Montufa was a patient at Palm Beach County hospital since July 1 after reporting shortness of breath while in ICE detention."

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Judge delays ruling on ICE detention, meaning migrant parents and kids could be separated Friday

One judge has ruled that children must be released on Friday, but a second judge now says he won't rule till next week if their parents should be released.
By Jacob Soboroff and Julia Ainsley

"WASHINGTON — A federal judge said Monday he will not rule until the middle of next week on whether migrant parents detained by ICE in family detention centers should be released, meaning 335 children and parents now held there could begin to be separated from each other on Friday.

The decision by Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for D.C. would come after the July 17 deadline imposed by a federal judge in California for all children to be released from ICE's three family detention centers to mitigate their exposure to COVID-19.

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ICE to launch 'Citizens Academy' to teach civilians about 'targeted arrests'

By Caitlin Dickson

A “Citizens Academy” planned by a branch of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which will include “scenario-based training and exercises,” is spreading alarm among civil liberties and immigration rights organizations — which question why the agency is devoting resources to providing civilians with “firearms familiarization” and instruction in “targeted arrests.”

The program, set to begin in Chicago this fall as “a pilot for nationwide implementation,” will be run by ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations branch, which is responsible for detaining and deporting immigrants.
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Local
San Diego Resources:
DACA, COVID-19

The Supreme Court of the United States did not issue a decision on DACA this week, adding more stress and uncertainty to our communities.

Check out these great mindfulness resources from United We Dream.
We're all in this together!

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Renewing your DACA is even more important now than ever before!

Consult with an attorney or nonprofit that is offering legal services to see if you are eligible to renew now!

National Immigration Legal Services Directory

Use the options below to search for immigration legal services providers by state, county, or detention facility.

Only nonprofit organizations that provide free or low-cost immigration legal services are included in this directory.

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Covid-19 Resources for Undocumented People /
Covid-19 Recursos para Personas Indocumentadas

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COVID-19: Assistance
Available to Undocumented Individuals

Financial Relief, Health Access and Guidance, Legal Rights, Free and Low Cost Services.

COVID-19: Assistencia
para Individuos Indocumentados

Ayuda Financiera, Acceso y Información para Cuidado de Salud, Derechos Legales, Servicios Gratuitos y De Bajo Costo.

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Corona Relief San Diego

SERVICE TO HELP THOSE IN NEED GET GROCERIES & MEDICINE DELIVERED.

** [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Or call (619)-800-1892

Resources:
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UNITED STATES

Org: United We Dream
Financial support, DACA resources, mental health and well being.
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Small business loans
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CALIFORNIA

Sacramento County
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Oakland
Org: OUR Fund
Helps with Financial support, application closed on May 4th.
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New York City
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