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Thank you for having us!
Thank you so much to Rabbi Arnie Rachlis and the University Synagogue for inviting
our Executive Director to have a talk about Immigration!

If you or your group want to invite us for an interview or a presentation, feel free to email us!
[email protected]

You can also complete a presentation request form:
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To watch the interview, start at minute, 55:00
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** Program Updates:
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On this trip to the desert we found a lot of items we had left recently were consumed!

This particular route is one of the longest distances from the border, for those traveling through the desert. With a combination of long desert washes, steep terrain and rocky arroyos present, it is one of the most difficult in the region.

One group went out to scout a region that is a very crucial point along the journey, with the distance and terrain mixed in with the weather. Dropping supplies here is very important, before the weather reaches triple digits.

With your support and donations, we are able to carry out the work where it is needed the most.
Thank you all!

For questions and more info please email us at [email protected]
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Many migrants continue to arrive in Tijuana with the hopes of entering the U.S. In the last week, a shelter we support, Embajadores de Jesus, welcomed 80 new people –– they are expecting 20 more! On top of this, those already in the shelter have remained there because only a handful of them were in the MPP program (also known as Remain in Mexico).

Currently, only those previously registered in MPP are eligible to be admitted into the U.S.

With your continued support, we hope we can continue providing rent, groceries, paying utilities, and assist them as much as we can through our Shelter Aid Program. Pastor Gustavo and the rest of the team has also started the construction of classrooms as many of the arrivals have been children.

You can donate to help our shelter friends in Tijuana above.

¡GRACIAS!

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Our friends at Casa de Luz continue to support migrants at El Chaparral (PedEAst) port of entry in Tijuana. They continue to distribute meals and are documenting the growing need of families and adults at the border.

Irving and the rest of the team from Casa de Luz are hopeful that there will be at least public restrooms in place soon.

There are currently over 150 tents set up, with about 7 to 8 people per tent. Part of the priority of everyone assisting on the ground is making sure the new arrivals can at least have a sleeping bag or tent to keep warm throughout the night.

The fate for these asylum seekers remains uncertain. We continue to demand accountability for this administration and to welcome asylum seekers with dignity!

Thank you for your continued support for allowing us to assist these families through our Shelter Aid Program.

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We have freed our 70th person from detention!

Bond was posted for a 28-year-old asylum seeker from Mali, Oumar. He was kept at the Imperial Valley Regional Detention Center for four months and is now ready to begin his new life.

Oumar is headed to the East Coast to reunite with his family after 10 years of separation. We are so grateful to all of you for making this possible!

The support and donations we have received in the last year helped over 60 migrants, but we still need your support to continue helping mothers, fathers, and loved ones who are still detained.

We pledge to end family separation one family at a time, will you?
Here is information about our latest bond recipient, Axel!

He is a 23-year-old asylum seeker from El Salvador. Axel spent a total of 15 months inside the Otay Mesa Detention Center, and we could not be happier to know he is finally starting his new life.

Out of everyone we have assisted, Axel is one of the people who has spent the longest time in detention. Still, in speaking to him he remains nothing but hopeful and grateful.
When we followed up with him, he told us he is currently enrolled in both ESL and math classes online, and is meeting with a pro bono lawyer next month to work on his asylum case.

We continue to fight for our hermanxs as they are still subject to the same unjust system since we started our Familias Reunidas Immigration Bond Fund.

With your help, we will not stop until we free them all!

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Upcoming event
Click this link to RSVP to check out this Panel and Discussion!

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Happy International Women's Day
On International Women’s Day we are thinking of all of the mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends still remaining in all of our supported Tijuana shelters and camped at El Chaparral. We are also recognizing all of the women that form part of the leadership of these 15+ shelters, many of them currently providing meals for those camped out at the border.

We bring attention to the women who have made enormous sacrifices for themselves and their families to flee violence, persecution, and a seek a place in this country.

To the women who have made a journey through the unforgiving desert.
To the women who have risked everything only to end up in a detention center.
To the women whose families have been torn apart due to unjust immigration policies.
To the women currently waiting on this administration to provide a pathway for entry and justice.

We celebrate is their strength and their resilience.

Thank you for your continued support, and helping us continue assisting all of them through all of our programs.

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Purchase your own “Tu Vida Vale” t-shirt, stickers and pins!

Get your limited edition merchandise now before it runs out & check out our other merchandise while you're expoloring!

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One of the best ways to help Border Angels’ mission is holding a fundraiser on our behalf! It is because of the support of all our followers and countless fundraisers we were able to accomplish so much of our life-saving work last year.

We’ve put together everything you need to know from ideas to instructions of how to start yours in our Fundraising Toolkit.

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** BA in the News
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** Opinion: Trump is out of office, but challenges for migrants and shelters at the U.S.-Mexico border remain
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By Vanessa Ceceña

"Ceceña is director of capacity building in the Border Angels organization and lives in San Diego.

Year after year, border communities and the U.S.-Mexico border have been politicized as the conversations around immigration and the rights of migrants have become partisan debates. During the previous administration, immigration policies worked not only to limit asylum processing at the border but also to further polarize the issue.

The Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) was one of the programs implemented by the Department of Homeland Security that forced more than 70,000 ([link removed]) migrants, including women and children, to remain in Mexican border towns. Closing the border to asylum seekers impacted migrants directly, as well as the humanitarian aid organizations and migrant shelters in Tijuana, Mexico."

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** Biden Immigration Changes Raise Hopes, Concerns on US-Mexico Border
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By Elizabeth Lee

"... The rapid-fire changes in immigration policy under the new administration have been confusing to some of the MPP asylum-seekers. Dulce Garcia, executive director of Border Angels, which supports 15 shelters in Mexico for asylum-seekers waiting to have their cases heard in the U.S., says half of a shelter's residents recently set out to try their luck at the border.

“About a quarter came back after being rejected,” she said, “and the other quarter is what is really concerning to us, because we think that maybe they are trying (to cross the border) through the desert.”

U.S. officials have been working with humanitarian organizations to begin processing the approximately 25,000 people in the MPP program. Beginning February 19, the first group of 25 people who had been waiting in Mexico entered the U.S. in San Diego, California. Mayorkas said officials are increasing the number of ports that are processing asylum-seekers as well as the number of people being processed. "
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** Stay Informed
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** They expect a new wave of migrants: Commission for Aid to Refugees
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Authorities on migration and human mobility announced the opening of the new Comar office in Tijuana.

By Khennia Reyes

"Tijuana, BC.- Because a new wave of migrants is expected this year, an office of the Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid (Comar) will be inaugurated in Tijuana , which will allow foreign families to seek protection in Mexican territory.

The coordinator of the agency, Andrés Ramírez, announced that the offices will be within the AC Salesiano Project , in the Castillo neighborhood.

The announcement of the new Comar in Tijuana was also attended by the Undersecretary of Human Rights, Population and Migration, Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez; the representative of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Mexico (UNHCR) , Mark Manly.

The latter commented that the mobility of people will increase due to the Covid-19 pandemic , violence, climate change, hunger, among others."

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** Biden rescinds Trump's 'public charge' rule
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By John Kruzel

"The Biden administration on Thursday formally rescinded the Trump-era “public charge” rule, which tightened restrictions on poorer immigrants seeking U.S. residency, as a dozen GOP state attorneys general scrambled to preserve it.

The move by Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to repeal his predecessor’s policy seemed, at least for the moment, to calm the controversy that surrounded the measure this week.

“Today, DHS closed the book on the public charge rule,” Alejandro Mayorkas ([link removed]) , the secretary of Homeland Security, said in a statement."

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** Hundreds of minors are crossing the border each day without their parents. Who are they?
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Three-quarters are teenagers ages 15 to 17, often fleeing violence, gang recruitment or poverty in their countries.

By Nick Miroff, Andrew Ba Tran and Leslie Shapiro

"They cross the border from Mexico in groups large and small, most of them teenagers, but some much younger, carrying the names and phone numbers of family members living in the United States. Home is hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away. Some make the journey with a smuggler or a friend, but others set out alone, traveling on buses, the tops of freight trains or even by foot.

Central American and Mexican children, tweens and teenagers traveling without parents are crossing the border in soaring numbers ([link removed]) , once more creating a logistical and humanitarian emergency for the U.S. government.

Some are fleeing violence, poverty and gang recruitment in their hometowns, risking the dangerous trip north in hope of finding safety or maybe a job that will pay exponentially more than they could make at home. The U.S. government labels them “unaccompanied minors,” and the Biden administration is struggling to shelter and care for them."

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