Thank you for your support!

On this hot summer Saturday (6/26/2021), we sent two teams out to leave supplies, and one team on a collaborative Search and Rescue mission with the organization Aguilas Del Desierto Although we leave supplies along numerous migrant traveled corridors, supplies are being taken at a rapid rate, and there are paths now presented that were previously unknown to us.

The Southern California borderlands mountains and desert are full of wilderness ranges full of mountains full of boulders, desert valleys and washes that trap in the heat. The dark rocks act as charcoal and can add 10°+ to the temperature, and the decomposed granite “sand” in the washes hold a tremendous amount of heat inside, with temperatures hot enough to melt the soles of shoes.

Our groups found a lot of traces of travel, stocked up active drop sites, and cleaned up a fair amount of trash from the wilderness. The summer temperatures right now are around 110°-115° and will only get warmer for the next two months. Hydration and preparation are vital to accomplishing our mission, and our team is doing great with that.

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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Our friends at Volviendo a La Patria—one of the shelters we support— prepared burritos for the many migrant families who still remain at El Chaparral encampment in Tijuana.

Although about 250 asylum seekers are processed a day, the backlog and arrival of new migrants at the encampment means thousands of people who still need food and support remain.

Thank you for your continued support, which allows us to provide meals like these and allowing our life saving work to continue. To view the full video click here ([link removed]) .

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Through our Shelter Aid program, we have been slowly but surely renovating and assisting a variety of shelters to ensure our migrant siblings have welcoming, functioning, and dignified living spaces. Our latest project has been fixing electrical issues at Camino de Salvacion. Camino de Salvacion has been instrumental in both housing the migrant community, as well as providing meals to El Chaparral encampment.

Our supported shelters have been through so much with the pandemic, and many reaching capacity due to Title 42 and the situation at El Chaparral, that they are in constant need of assistance. We thank you for your continued support, as your contributions go to rent, renovations, food, and much more for both the shelters and El Chaparral.

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#VoicesOfHope ([link removed][0]=AZUpl77DLomkHwJwLy8CUOG-v7XJkool0wF_iFnwRv6sDRQ5rDkOCPiz4u-5Xzd9jo7MUCxKAFk0DtW_3qyZMCuBbY8sUI9bxk8pgLfk-ZTIx-zHtuiFfoc201hBrrml9xSCzLb5Z3fl3ywg_5WZ_sxSxsynBMpGZBYNNr-Dil7n8hFdGjf7TAcvrCI32tYQFHs&__tn__=*NK-R&mc_cid=46fed706a6&mc_eid=UNIQID) 🗣️ | In the asylum seeker encampment in El Chaparral, Tijuana, the situation continues to grow increasingly dangerous, leaving people more vulnerable, and Mexican authorities continue their systematic abandonment of the people while the United States continues to fail to respect the right to seek asylum for the vast majority of migrants.

Due to violence and persecution, Elena fled Guatemala and is currently at El Chaparral. From there, she calls on the US authorities and president Biden to end the cruel and illegal border policies and to fully respect the right to seek international protection.

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Our day laborer outreach team headed out once this month and was able to distribute over 60 packages of snacks, clothing, and hygiene products. Our team was also able to collect some insight and valuable information. We are starting to see that as San Diego has been reopening, our day laborer community is able to seek out more work.

We continue to diligently serve and listen to our day laborers and ensure their fair treatment, and that their needs are being met. This month, we were made aware of a work injury. Part of the efforts of this program is to instill trust and be a resource for the day laborers, and we will continue to listen and help!

If you are interested in donating you can click the button on this post or email us at [email protected] to donate assembled care packages with masks, neon T-shirts, and hand sanitizers. We are also always looking to partner with restaurants willing to donate prepped meals. For more info or questions please feel free to email us!

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We are so excited to announce we have bonded out our first couple through our Familias Reunidas Immigration Bond Fund! Maxim and Sofia are Russian asylum seekers who spent over two months inside Imperial Regional Detention Center.

Maxim is seeking asylum based on his political opinion, as President of Chechnya is executing his own Chechen people, prompting him and his partner to make the courageous decision to come to the U.S. Unfortunately, due to U.S policies, this meant awaiting their fate in for-profit immigration prison. This couple has been through so much, being kept in detention together, yet still being apart. We are grateful they are now able to be reunited with some of their family members and being free of detention.

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We freed the 85th person from for-profit immigration prison! Pedro (black shirt) is a 24-year-old asylum seeker from Brazil who spent almost two months inside the Otay Mesa Detention Center. He is now headed to Massachusetts to reunite with his cousin and sponsor.

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 are on a roll! We're excited to share that another one of our Green Cards for Kids cases has been approved! Diana has been approved for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status! This approval is an important step to change her status to permanent resident and obtain green cards. We can't thank you enough for making this possible!

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


** County supervisors seek to aid immigrant communities with new office
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By Alexandra Mendoza

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved this week the creation of an Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs, which will serve as a hub to connect families and individuals to available services and resources.

The office also will engage regularly with community stakeholders to ensure that the services offered are what the community needs and will inform the board when policy changes are needed to better serve immigrants and refugees.

This proposal received support from over 80 local organizations, including the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium, San Diego Rapid Response Network, MAS PACE, Karen Organization of San Diego, Border Angels and MAAC Project.

“The creation of this office is a step in the right direction,” said Dulce García, the immigrant rights consortium chair and an immigrant. “This hub will be a place for us to learn about our rights and resources available in our communities to keep our families safe”.

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** 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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