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Dear Friend,

My heart breaks for the migrant people, and especially the children, suffering in detention in Texas and across the country. Our longtime ally and grantee, Border Agricultural Workers Project, remains steadfast in their organizing work on behalf of migrant families, but they ask for your help. Please be generous as much needs to be done.

Here's what Carlos Marentes, Sr., founder and director of BAWP, wrote us last week, shortly after the mass shooting in El Paso left 22 dead, dozens wounded and the community on edge:
Once we have buried our dead and that our wounded have returned to their homes to heal, we remain engaged in fighting against the ostentatious presence of paramilitary groups of white supremacists, who continue to harass and are a latent threat to our border community… Naturally, we have also intensified our efforts to strengthen the resistance of migrants who remain the target of the current war against the poorest of the poor.

The White supremacist attack against migrants and immigrants at the Walmart in El Paso is directly linked to the racist violence and xeonophic policies locking up children and criminalizing families seeking to escape unthinkable horrors in their home countries. Already this year, 600,000 migrants have been taken by Border Patrol, and seven children have died in custody. Many migrants from Guatemala, Honduras and elsewhere have been forced off their lands by the same forces that our partners in those countries confront relentlessly and courageously.

I'm honored to say that Grassroots International was able to provide an emergency grant of $1,000 to Border Agricultural Workers Project in the immediate aftermath of the shooting in El Paso. But so much more needs to be done. Please support them directly by clicking here, and show your solidarity and support at this critical moment. Your donation will go directly to Sin Fronteras Organizing Project, the fiscal sponsor for the Border Agricultural Workers Project.

Thank you for standing up for human rights, including along the borderlands.
In solidarity,




Chung-Wha Hong
Executive Director