Thank you for your support!

One group. Two routes.
While a good number of our team members took a much needed week off, our strong and resilient group was able to drop supplies in just about two full routes in a little less than 12 hours.

With an early start, we were able to get out of the desert valley just as the temperature started getting into the triple digits. After a little bit of rock crawling in some 4x4s, our group pushed through some overgrown vegetation, hopped over and around large rocks.

We found 99% of our supplies taken and/or consumed. We restocked the drop sites with canned food, water, hats, bandanas, and socks. We also cleaned up items left behind, with just about 20lbs of trash removed. A BIG thank you to those that came out and put in the extra work, making up for a weekend of low turnout.

For any questions regarding our Water Drop program, please email [email protected]. Until further notice, we are still not taking any new volunteers. Click button to donate

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Check out the Before and After photos!
Our Shelter Aid Program in Tijuana provides so much more than meals and rent. A bathroom transformation from our supported shelter Jesucristo Vive!

The shower is now completely remodeled and we are so excited for our friends at this shelter to have the comfort of a nice relaxing shower. Our migrant siblings have been stuck in limbo, desperate of waiting for answers, not knowing what future awaits them or their family, and have left everything behind.

We are committed to making their living spaces dignified, welcoming, and the opposite of what US policies, lawmakers and politicians keep repeating. They might seem like small victories, but to us and our migrant friends they mean so much more!

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Our supported shelters continue to provide meals for everyone they can at El Chaparral encampment in Tijuana. Ejercito de Salvacion shelter heads there at least 3 times per week. The need for food and support continues, as even though there have been few people allowed entry into the US, new families continue to arrive every day. Families depend on meals like this one, as they still receive no other kind of support. El Chaparral and the migrant shelters are all connected.

Our efforts in Tijuana remain comprehensive and in collaboration with other organizations, like Psicologos Sin Fronteras, who help migrants cope with the enormous amount of trauma they have endured and then be able to start legal consults and proceedings. The term "humanitarian crisis" truly applies and continues in Tijuana, and with your help, we continue to support in every way we can.

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We freed the 84th person from for-profit immigration prison! Adrian is a 28-year-old asylum seeker from Russia who spent a year inside the Imperial Regional Detention Center.

We are devastated to know that Adrian spent an entire year of his life inside a for-profit immigration prison, but sadly we know he is not the only case of this nature. With this program, we hope to not only assist and reunite families, but to show the unjust systems and policies migrants face. We hope to raise awareness to a system that subjects a person to be incarcerated for twelve months simply for seeking a place in this country.

This year, we want to free 100 people from immigration detention, and we need YOUR help.When you donate to our Familias Reunidas Immigration Bond Fund you are helping a mother hug her son, a husband hug his spouse, friends be together again, and so much more! Every dollar donated goes towards freeing someone.
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We freed the 83rd person from for-profit immigration prison! Peterson is a 27-year-old asylum seeker from Haiti who spent three months inside the Otay Mesa Detention Center.

The majority of migrants who are disproportionately affected when receiving a bond amount, are black and brown migrants. People like Peterson, often see higher bond amounts simply because they are from an African country, as bonds are set arbitrarily. With this program, we hope to not only assist and reunite families, but to show the unjust systems and policies migrants face.
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We are excited to announce that two of the children in our program, David and Andres, have been approved for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status!
David is one of the youngest in our program at 7 years old. This approval is an important step to change their status to permanent residents and obtain green cards.

These milestones are possible thanks to attorney Fabiola Navarro and YOU for your continued support.

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to get yours now before we’re out!

You can still stock up on Tu Vida Vales shirts, Black Lives Matter shirts, water bottles, hats, and other merchandise.

Be on the lookout for new merch very soon!
Border Angels in the News


** Another Presence on the Mexican Border
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By James Cordero

"Our mission is too important. The people we leave the
supplies for are too important. The environment is too important. We care and love our public lands and wilderness areas,
especially the Jacumba Wilderness."

Check out the following article on our Water Drop's team important work in the desert, from leaving life-saving supplies to collecting thousands of pounds of trash. We are very proud of our Water Drop Co-Director James Cordero on writing this piece.

Read 'Another Presence on the Mexican Border' on News of the Desert from Sierra Club California Desert Committee's Desert Report here ([link removed]) . (pages 14-15).


** Rights groups decry ‘flawed’ US asylum exemptions process
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Aid organisations are calling on the Biden administration to end Title 42 expulsions and restore asylum at border.

By Jihan Abdalla

"Dulce Garcia, executive director of Border Angels, a grassroots organisation assisting migrants in the makeshift El Chaparral encampment outside the border crossing between the US and Tijuana, Mexico, said her group has helped 273 migrants enter the US since April.
But more than 2,000 people, among them hundreds of children, still live in the camp in dangerous and unsanitary conditions, she said. Many also have serious illnesses, such as cancer, and injuries including gunshot wounds and need immediate health attention.

“Some women have been abused, some raped and became pregnant from those abuses. Some endured kidnapping while they were waiting,” Garcia told Al Jazeera. “The Biden administration continues to have the doors closed to them and there’s no mechanism for them to request asylum except through these very limited applications,” she said."

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** Facing a Historic Heat Wave, Migrants at the Border at Greater Risk Than Ever
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By Alex J. Rouhandeh

Dulce Garcia, executive director of Border Angels in San Diego, told Newsweek that individuals living in the El Chaparral encampment in Tijuana face worsening conditions as the government cracks down on the camp and the heat wave draws near.

"If Kamala Harris had actually stepped into these spaces, like the encampment, and had seen for herself how people are literally dying in that space from lack of medical attention from months and even years of waiting for their asylum cases to be heard," Garcia told Newsweek, "I think the doors would have been made open to asylum seekers."

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** 'Dreamer' returns to Mexico after 30 years to help asylum seekers
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By LA Times Staff

"Garcia was 4 years old when she came to the United States and said she does not have many memories before migrating.

"Unfortunately, the last memory that I have from Mexico was when my family and I were robbed at gunpoint in Tijuana. And, that is all I really remember; I have flashbacks of Mexico, but my life has been here in the United States ever since. I was undocumented for a long time until I finally applied for DACA, which is not a path to citizenship. Still, it allows me to be here in the U.S., and now I am an attorney with my law practice, and I am the executive director of a nonprofit called Border Angels," Garcia said."

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