** Border Angels Weekly Newsletter
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** Day Laborer Outreach
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"With your continued support, this past Saturday out Day laborer Outreach Team was able to provide lunches, hygiene items, socks and ‘Know Your Rights’ cards to 65 day laborers in our San Diego county. With every visit, we continue to learn about different challenges the day laborers face through this pandemic. It has become even more difficult to find work as less contractors are seeking workers to the continuous harassment they face.

We appreciate your willingness to donate and allow us to continue being a level of support to the day laborers. Well continue to adapt and find new methods that will help these workers thrive in their field and their well being. Thank you!"

- Osvaldo Ruiz Day Laborer Outreach Coordinator

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** Shelter Aid
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After over 20 years of using the same beds, we got Ejército de Salvación a brand new set of mattresses. Thanks to your support, we were able to purchase 20 mattresses to give our migrant friends and families a serious upgrade.

Although we have not been able to visit our supported Tijuana shelters as often, we have taken this time to rebuild, furnish, and help the directors enhance their shelters. With your help, we are doing everything we can to make sure our migrant friends are cared for. Gracias!🖤

In addition to this, when you donate to our Shelter Aid program, you help pay for food, rent, utilities, water & so much more!

DONATE DOWN BELOW!
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** Water Drops
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11/28/20 Water Drop

With temperatures dipping below freezing on multiple nights in the past month, we have focused priority to leaving winter supplies in some of the coldest areas that we regularly cover.

In addition to water and food, we leave packs that include hand warmers, beanie, socks, gloves. Additionally, we leave layerable clothing such as thermal shirts, flannels, and light sweatshirts.
The coldest areas are usually the most remote and dangerous. The need to provide these items is crucial for reducing pain and discomfort, hypothermia and even death.

While the pandemic has surged, we are setting even stricter guidelines for our team members to ensure safety of everyone, and minimize any possible exposure to Covid-19. With almost 40 weeks since the first stay at home order in March, we have not had one case related to anyone coming out to our drops.

These stricter guidelines will be reducing the amount of team members who are going to be coming out, and we are already seeing our numbers start to shrink down. Since we still need to be getting the same amount of supplies out as with a larger group, our wonderful team members have put in the extra work to make our mission continue.

Thank you to everyone who has continued to show up on a regular basis. Thank you everyone for reaching out about volunteering, 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 or our Water Drops during Covid, reach out to Water Drop Program Co-Director James Cordero, [email protected].

Thank you for your continued support!
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** Familias Reunidas
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We are so excited to enter the weekend having freed one person from detention through our Familias Reunidas Program this week: Marla, a 38 year old Ghanan asylum seeker who had been in Imperial Regional Detention Facility for over 3 months.

When we started this program in January, we could have never imagined it would free so many, and reunite so many families. Although this year and this administration have put up so many roadblocks, Marla’s freedom and every other person we have bonded make everything worthwhile. We could not maintain this work had it not been for all of your organizing, fundraising, and continued support. Thanks you for helping us save lives.

We need your help to get more migrants like Marla out of immigration prisons. The support and donations we have received in the last few months have helped over 65 migrants. But we are running low are tapping in to the last of our funds and we need your support to continue helping mothers, fathers, and loved ones who are still detained. All donations make a difference no matter the amount, and every dollar is spent towards getting someone out of detention!
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** Fundraising fun!
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Time and time again, we are so impressed at your creativity and compassion! We could never have imagined all of the different ways all of you have fundraised for us. As we face another wave in this pandemic, you all respond with a drive to support us. When we talk about our culture of love, and how we believe in active love, this is exactly what we mean. Using what ways we can spread this love, wether it be our art, organizing, our voices or our businesses to help this beautiful migrant community. We cannot thank you enough and while we are only able to feature 10 of these stories, we see and recognize all of you.

Meet everyone:
1.@stylophonicdoll : representing us in a freestyle dance competition
2.@reunifyyoga : raising money for our bond fund with memberships
3.@dianevanessafitness supporting us through her company @diosafititofficial
4.@tiermarq designing these NO ICE tshirts
5.@digitalmijo creating beautiful tattoo prints
6.@lawrenceandargyle making these awesome pins
7.@marisadelucastudio @latinxartivist organizing an art auction, and every single artist who submitted a piece
8.@cocovera_space designating an entire capsule collection of clothing to benefit us
9.@abenjami selling prints for protest
10.@tejassupplyco designing this bandana
You can head to our Fundraisers highlight for more!

Want to organize a fundraiser on our behalf but aren’t really sure how to start?

Email us at [email protected]
Thank you to all of our supporters!

We are filled with gratitude for all your donations and the constant support to our cause!



** With your support
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If you didn't get a chance to make a donation, there is still time!
Make a difference and donate today.

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Please make checks payable to:

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** Other ways to support
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CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS!🗣
We need your help with Text Banking for Georgia Runoff Elections! The outcome of these elections will determine who will take control of the senate. Although we will have a new administration, the Senate is imperative for all future comprehensive immigration reform or lack thereof. There is so much at stake, including DACA, asylum, detention centers, family separation and more. Help us affect really change by volunteering to mobilize and get out the vote.

Click our linktree button

and go to “Georgia Runoff Elections” to sign up!
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** BA in the News
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DACA recipients, or Dreamers as they’ve come to be known, have been left in limbo amid the pandemic and the Trump administration's actions to end DACA.

Check out the interview Border Angel's Executive Director Dulce Garcia gave on this weeks KPBS midday edition!

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Shop for a cause, shop on our website in time for the Holidays!


** BA Shop
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We are excited to announce our Limited Edition Black Lives Matter T-shirt! This t-shirt is now available for purchase on our website in both Black and Cream colors and in sizes S-2XL. It has our Border Angels logo on the back too.

We also have our classic Border Angels logo hat, water bottles, pins, stickers, plus much more!

Border Angels stands in solidarity with the black community and our mission of humanitarian work embraces all those who are victimized and marginalized by the country’s racist institutions and policies. That is why we are donating a portion of the profits to organizations assisting the Black Lives Matter movement, but we need your help! Help us select an organization of your choosing!

**Design by Misael Ruiz**

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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.

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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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** Save the Date
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The Consulate General of Mexico in San Diego, in collarboration with the Center for Mexico-United States Studies of University of California San Diego (UCSD), invite you to the session Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

Executive Director, Dulce Garcia will be participating!

Date: Monday, December 14, 2020
Time: 10:00 am PST

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On Thursday, January 21, the Strauss Center will host Dulce Garcia, Executive Director of Border Angels, ([link removed][UNIQID]) for a virtual talk. This webinar is part of our Brumley Speaker Series ([link removed][UNIQID]) .

Border Angels is a non-profit organization that advocates for human rights, humane immigration reform, and social justice. Border Angels attempts to reduce the number of fatalities along the US-Mexico border by educating and assisting the communities on both sides of the border.

Attendees must have a Zoom account to join the webinar.

Registration details coming soon.


** Stay Informed
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** More than 1,000 migrant children in US government custody have tested positive for Covid-19
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By Priscilla Alvarez

"(CNN)More than 1,000 migrant children in US government custody have tested positive for coronavirus since March, according to the federal agency charged with their care.

In total, there have been 1,061 lab-confirmed Covid-19 cases among unaccompanied migrant children in the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a federal agency run by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Of the 1,061 cases, 943 children have recovered and been moved from medical isolation, according to the agency.
Currently, 118 children have tested positive and remain in medical isolation, though none of the children have required hospitalization."

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** Undocumented immigrants far less likely to commit crimes in U.S. than citizens
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By Chris Barncard

"Crime rates among undocumented immigrants are just a fraction of those of their U.S.-born neighbors, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis of Texas arrest and conviction records.

Compared to undocumented immigrants, U.S. citizens were twice as likely to be arrested for violent felonies in Texas from 2012 to 2018, two-and-a-half times more likely to be arrested for felony drug crimes, and over four times more likely to be arrested for felony property crimes, according to a study ([link removed][UNIQID]) published by University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

With new access to Texas’ computerized criminal history data for more than 1.8 million arrests over six years, UW–Madison sociology professor Michael Light ([link removed][UNIQID]) and co-authors Jingying He and Jason Robey — who were both UW–Madison graduate students — were able to directly calculate the rates at which U.S.-born citizens, legal immigrants and undocumented immigrants were arrested for a range of felony offenses."

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** California farmworkers hit hard by COVID-19, study finds
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By Kara Manke


"Many farmworkers who plant and harvest our food are forced to live and work under conditions that are ripe for transmission of COVID-19. During the summer harvest season, coronavirus outbreaks popped up across the nation among farmworkers in agricultural communities, including many in California ([link removed][UNIQID]) .

In a white paper published online today ([link removed][UNIQID]) (Wednesday, Dec. 2), public health researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, detail preliminary findings from the first long-term study on the prevalence of, and the risk factors for, COVID-19 infection among California’s agricultural laborers.

The paper reports that between mid-July and November 2020, 13% of the 1,091 Salinas Valley farmworkers enrolled in the study tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. In California as a whole, only 5% of the population has tested positive between the beginning of the pandemic and late November.

By the end of October, roughly 20% of farmworkers recruited for the study tested positive for antibodies to COVID-19, indicating prior infection. These figures are far higher than estimates of approximately 1% in the San Francisco Bay Area population at large from studies led by the Centers for Disease Control ([link removed][UNIQID]) and by other UC Berkeley researchers ([link removed][UNIQID]) during the spring and summer."

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