Border Angels Weekly Newsletter
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This year, Giving Tuesday will fall on
December 1st!
Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world. Despite the hardships this year has brought, it has also shown us the importance of community solidarity and support.
Your support will allow us to continue reunifying families. So far we have helped over 60 migrants with our Familia Reunidas Program.
Your support will allow us to continue helping children receive the legal protection, love and care they deserve. Our Green Cards for Kids provides migrant children, many who were abandoned, with an attorney who is an expert at advocating for kids.
Your support will allow us to maintain a presence in the desert and mountains through our Water Drops. This year, even during COVID, our team went (almost) every weekend to leave water, clothes and food for migrants, saving countless lives.
Your support will allow us to help shelter directors in Tijuana feed and house migrants. This year alone we have provided many shelters with new appliances; such as washer, dryers, stoves, and refrigerators. We have funded a shelter COVID-19 expansion to ensure the safety of others when isolating and practicing social distancing. We also helped provide hundreds of face masks to maintain a safe and healthy community.
Your support also allows us to provide Day Laborers with personal hygiene products, face masks, hand sanitizers, fresh produce, snacks and neon t-shirts that help in the line of work they seek.
The results of the presidential election has reignited our hope, but we know that we collectively have A LOT of work ahead of us – and we need your help! Mark your calendars.  
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Join us for the Virtual Border Ministries Summit 2020 and hear from those at the center of the immigrant community in San Diego.
Our Executive Director, Dulce Garcia, will be speaking tomorrow, November 21 at 11am on the
Immigration Legal Landscape Panel Discussion!
You won't want to miss it!
You can register for the summit by clicking here: https://www.borderministries.com/register
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The attorney leading our Green Cards For Kids program, Fabiola Navarro, joined us to answer all of our supporter's questions related to this project.
Find out about the kids we are assisting and how this program provides legal representation to migrant children seeking Special Immigrant Juvenile Status.
https://www.borderangels.org/green-cards-for-kids.html
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Caravan for Truth Act Community Forum
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We had the privilege to join the
#StopICETransfers Caravan leading up to the TRUTH Act Community Forum that was held on Tuesday.
We called on Sheriff Bill Gore to stop transferring inmates to ICE!
Check out our video!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHtWIbZhSrJ/
Thank you to those who joined the Caravan, submitted a comment or called into the meeting.
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We are so excited and grateful to have been chosen by our friends Eric and Paula to be the beneficiaries for their Bikes 4 Good project.
They will be riding through Baja in the beginning of next year, with the goal of fundraising $1,700 for 1,700 miles! AMAZING!
All donations will go to help our various programs.
Thank you so much friends!
Want to collaborate with us but don’t know where to start? Email us at [email protected]
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Now that the weather is cooler, we can go out for even longer and farther than the summer had let us. Weather in the mountains has already dipped below freezing this week, with the desert temperature not too far behind that.
While this weekend will bring a little warmer weather, it will only be brief. As we move away from strictly warm/hot weather, we start to shift from not only wanting to help prevent dehydration, but also hypothermia. The supplies we leave out now are water gallons, pop-top canned food, socks, beanies, gloves, flannel shirts/thermal base layers. Donations of these items are greatly appreciated, along with sharing our social media posts. Thank you!
Thank you to everyone who has continued to show up on a regular basis. Thank you everyone for reaching out about volunteering and for your support and understanding during the pandemic. As soon as it’s safe for us to start taking larger groups, we will. Please stay tuned to our social media accounts and our weekly newsletter.
For any questions about Water Drops reach out to Water Drop Program Co-Director James Cordero at [email protected]. Thank you for your continued support!
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Yesterday we had the privilege of sitting down for a virtual meeting with Tijuana shelter directors. We wanted to ensure that all of their urgent needs were being taken to account and we wanted o thank them all for their tireless work and devotion in Tijuana. Despite their very busy schedules 14 directors were able to join our Executive Director, Board President, and office staff.
It was an emotional talk hearing about the hardships our migrant friends and families have had, with the added pressures and losses of the pandemic. Many of them have stopped receiving support completely from the government and other organizations, and rely solely on us. Directors have had to ensure so many new protocols and have made modifications to their shelters to keep everyone safe. This has drastically increased their work, as well as the need for new appliances, supplies, medical attention. Yet, they all remain so polite, grateful, and resilient.
Thanks to you, and your continued support, they are able to purchase groceries to feed migrant families, pay rent, utilities and purchase the tools they need to survive this pandemic. We are so impressed how this amazing group of individuals has adapted, some of them building expansions, teaching workshops, providing legal representation, and even cultivating gardens to help this vulnerable population that is so dear to us.
All of these amazing acts of love are possible because of their dedication, and because of all of YOU. GRACIAS!
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We were lucky enough to be part of the amazing virtual panels.
Thank you Leno for inviting us!
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Activists prepare report
3,175 kilometers with problems to solve
By Leticia Roa Nixon
The Chicago newspaper "El Tribuno del Pueblo" sponsored the work of 27 participants to hold five virtual panels on the policies of the United States government from August to October. These affect asylum seekers, the construction of the border wall and its effect on local communities, the way in which civil society, in the respective countries, upholds the rights of migrants despite the arduous working conditions and continued militarization in border communities. "Children have been separated from their parents and have died in the custody of the Border Patrol, the border wall has desecrated the ancestral lands of indigenous peoples and these issues must be included in the dialogue about the leadership of this country"Laura García, editor of "El Tribuno del Pueblo", stated firmly.
https://www.impactomedia.com/bienestar-comun/migracion/activistas-preparan-informe/
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Familias Reunidas
Bond Program
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Fall into the season of giving by donating your classic car to Border Angels. Your generous gift has the potential to bring hundreds and even thousands of dollars for saving lives in the desert, freeing loved ones from a detention center, and our migrant families in Tijuana.
The trusted vehicle donation program makes it easy with free pick-up and takes great care in finding the right buyer to get top dollar for it. Plus, they handle all the paperwork, too! Whether your vehicle sells for $500 or less, more than $500, or more than $5000, you will be provided with the proper paperwork and tax receipts for your donation.
Call 855-500-RIDE (855-500-7433) or donate online at https://careasy.org/home#NP-donation-form
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You can donate to Border Angels when you shop on Amazon.
Amazon will donate 0.5% of the purchase price of eligible items to Border Angels!
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Tienes la oportunidad de donar a Border Angels cuando compras en Amazon.
Amazon nos donará el 0.5% del precio de compra de artículos elegibles!
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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💧: 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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