Border Angels Weekly Newsletter
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Border Angels statement addressing the riot at the U.S Capitol
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Familias Reunidas
Bond Program
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Click the image to watch video!
The Familias Reunidas Immigration Bond Fund posted its first bond on January 7, 2020. Since then, we have helped free 69 immigrants and asylum seekers from the Otay Mesa, Adelanto and Imperial County for-profit immigration prisons. Because of you, this program has helped dozens of people from over 18 countries of origin.
Today, on the anniversary of our first bond posting, we share with you a short piece of art, created in the hopes to raise awareness of the complex immigration system that disproportionately affects migrants of color, and from which private corporations profit from. Every donation helps mothers, fathers and loved ones who are still detained and every dollar goes towards freeing someone from detention.
Border Angels pledges to end family separation one family at a time, will you?
We are incredibly grateful to the three artists who created this:
Aysia Segura, Gavin South, and Cristina Ibarrando as well as professor Olivia Taussig-Moore and Pratt Institute for making this possible.
https://www.facebook.com/BorderAngels/videos/1097853930717891
Donate to the fund today!
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2020 was a tough year. We made a commitment to be out more frequently to leave supplies in the mountains and desert. We extend this promise into 2021 and are thankful for everyone’s support!
Follow along with the Border Angels Water Drop team as we navigate through the mountains and desert to leave food, water and other crucial supplies along the U.S./Mexico border.
Video Production by Casey Ticsay
Click the link to check out the video!
https://www.facebook.com/BorderAngels/videos/1040806396423331
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While today (1.6.2020), has brought so much chaos and unrest, It is important to all of us at Border Angels to fight for the hope our migrant families cling to. This new year and new administration is a beacon of hope for so many who have sacrificed too much and remain in the Tijuana shelters. We remain unwavering in our message and culture of love, and share with all of you the Dia de Reyes celebrations in the shelters, to thank all of you who make this mission possible. We must remain adamant in our pursuit of democracy and accurate representation, so that we can support our communities as best as possible. Thank you again for your support, LA LUCHA SIGUE 
(Día de Reyes: the Latino community, Día de Los Reyes, also known as Three Kings' Day or Epiphany, is celebrated on January 6 to honor the Three Wise Men — Los Tres Reyes Magos — who brought gifts to Jesus Christ. The day also marks the close of Christmas festivities. According to the Gospel of Matthew, the kings Melchior, Caspar, and Balthazar found the baby by following a star across the desert to Bethlehem.)
#tijuana #borderangels #lovehasnoborders #donate
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New Year’s day brought about delicious dinners and beautiful celebrations at the Tijuana migrant shelters. Your donations provided meals for Puerta de Esperanza, Lomo con almendras for Movimiento Juventud, and helped carry on the “Haitian soup” tradition at Camino de Salvación, and so much more!
Our friends at Camino de Salvación make this dish together on new year’s to celebrate Haitian Independence Day. We thank you once more for helping feed families and continue celebrating holidays full of love, and thank our friends in Tijuana for sharing these moments!
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As we learned last year, the “new normal” has forced us all to re-think and find new ways to do almost everything, including the ways you can help organizations like us! Everything we have been able to accomplish is because of the help of all of you, our followers.
So we’ve come up with 10 ideas to support Border Angels remotely this year!
1. Host a fundraiser on our behalf
2. Give a donation as a gift
3. Designate us as your charity through Food 4 Less & Ralph’s rewards
4. Support us through Amazon Smile
5. Ask you employer if they have a charitable giving program in place
6. Set up a recurring donation
7. Book Border Angels for a presentation
8. Use your skills for a purpose
9. Read an article & start a conversation on border issues
10. Like, comment, bookmark & share our posts
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NEW YEAR, NEW MERCH!  
The wait is over, head to our shop now and purchase your own “Tu Vida Vale” t-shirt, stickers and pins!
Get your limited edition merchandise now before it runs out!
Design by Misael Ruiz
Click below to shop:
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You can make a difference and donate today.
Please make checks payable to:
Border Angels
2258 Island Ave
San Diego, CA 92102
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Other ways to support
Border Angels
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Donate your classic car to Border Angels. Your generous gift has the potential to raise hundreds and even thousands of dollars that will go towards saving lives in the desert, freeing loved ones from detention centers, and helping 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! Whether your vehicle sells for $500 or less, for more than $500, or for more than $5,000, you will be provided with the proper paperwork and tax receipts.
Call 855-500-RIDE (855-500-7433) or donate online at https://careasy.org/home#NP-donation-form
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On Thursday, January 21, the Strauss Center will host Dulce Garcia, Executive Director of Border Angels, for a virtual talk. This webinar is part of their Brumley Speaker Series.
Attendees must have a Zoom account to join the webinar.
Registration details coming soon!
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Congress affirms Biden’s presidential win following riot at U.S. Capitol
By Rosalind S. Helderman, Karoun Demirjian, Seung Min Kim and Mike DeBonis
"Members of Congress, shaken and angry following a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of President Trump’s supporters, put a final stamp on President-elect Joe Biden’s victory early Thursday morning and brought an end to a historically turbulent post-election period.
Republicans had at one point planned to object to the electoral college votes in a series of states won by Biden, but after the storming of the Capitol, several GOP senators changed course, disputing only Arizona and Pennsylvania. Both challenges failed.
Shortly after Congress affirmed Biden’s win, Trump pledged an “an orderly transition.” The statement, tweeted by White House social media director Dan Scavino as Trump remained locked out of his own Twitter account, stops short of conceding or congratulating Biden."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress-resumes-work-to-confirm-biden-win-on-historic-day-marred-by-riot/2021/01/06/4c3729dc-5039-11eb-b96e-0e54447b23a1_story.html
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A New ICE Policy As Trump Is About To Leave Office Could Make It Harder For Immigrant Children To Get Asylum
“If implemented aggressively, this policy could significantly decrease the number of children who ultimately receive asylum in the United States,” one expert said.
By Hamed Aleaziz
"Immigrant children could have a harder time obtaining asylum in the US under a new policy issued by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the waning days of an administration that has spent the past four years restricting access at the nation’s southern border.
According to internal documents obtained by BuzzFeed News, the policy directive was issued by former acting agency leader Tony Pham, who left ICE on Dec. 31, and comes just weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, who is expected to rescind many of the restrictive immigration policies put in place under President Donald Trump.
Trump officials have long complained that unaccompanied minors and their families abuse the immigration system through “loopholes” that allow them to remain in the US after crossing the border to seek asylum. The Trump administration has responded by issuing controversial policies, including arresting undocumented people who come forward to care for immigrants in government shelters."
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/new-trump-ice-policy-immigrant-children-asylum
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Asylum seekers with strong cases for protection have been sent back to danger, human rights report says
By Kate Morrissey
"Stranded in Tijuana, a group of asylum seekers from Cameroon, Uganda and Ethiopia banded together in a shared hotel room. There, they would wait out Trump administration policies that had blocked their ability to request protection in the United States amid the pandemic.
The group has been harassed, threatened and extorted by Mexican officials since their arrival in the border city, an Ethiopian man told human rights researchers.
“The conditions are very horrible,” the man said of the hotel. “We have to buy everything like bed sheets and everything that we need. They give us these rotten mattresses. There are a lot [of] bugs and animals.”
Then, in November, a new hotel owner kicked the group out onto the streets, saying that he doesn’t like Africans, the asylum seeker said.
The group is among many thousands of asylum seekers stuck in Tijuana and along the U.S.-Mexico border who are struggling to survive as their temporary housing options whither and orders blocking their entry to the United States stretch out indefinitely.
Their plight is just one of the examples laid out in a report published by Human Rights First in December that looked at the ways asylum seekers have been increasingly harmed by U.S. immigration policies in 2020, especially those put into place following the arrival of the pandemic."
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-01-02/human-rights-report-pandemic-policies-asylum-seekers?fbclid=IwAR1uPgzmD3CBC_Y7uQGOCfap5FKng7Sgz6IBq4fH08Ads0rlxFi0OIyLUP4
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Arizona border deaths hit 10-year high after record heat
By Anita Snow
"PHOENIX — A project that maps the bodies of border-crossers recovered from Arizona’s inhospitable deserts, valleys and mountains said it documented 227 deaths in 2020, the highest in a decade after the hottest, driest summer in state history.
The previous annual high mapped by the Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office in Tucson and the nonprofit Humane Borders was 224 migrant deaths in 2010.
Enforcement efforts in California and Texas over the years have pushed migrants into dangerous terrain in Arizona without easy access to food and water. Humanitarian groups like No More Deaths leave water jugs and other provisions in remote parts of southern Arizona in hopes of saving lives in a region where nearly 3,400 migrant deaths have been documented since 2004."
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/california/story/2021-01-06/arizona-border-deaths-hit-10-year-high-after-record-heat
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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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