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Dear John,
You’ve probably heard from me from time to time. I am WOLA’s resident expert on the U.S.-Mexico border. I’ve been immersed in this work for more than 20 years. I spend my days monitoring information from government sources as well as nonprofits about how many people are arriving to our southern border to seek refuge. I could fill this email with data points, spreadsheets, you name it. But I won’t. I won’t because, and please just take my word for it, we have rarely seen it this intense. The numbers of unaccompanied migrant children arriving alone to the U.S.-Mexico border are higher than ever, as are the sheer volume of people risking everything for a better life.
The numbers matter less so than remembering that these are our fellow human beings whose lives and happiness matter just as much as the next person’s. Just as much as mine, as yours, as your children, and your grandchildren.
And yet, despite the temptation to despair, I don’t. And I hope you won’t either. I don’t despair because while the Biden Administration needs to, and must, do so much more to improve the process and conditions that asylum seekers are met with at our southern border, I remain vigilant. This work is endless but like me, I know you believe that it is work worth doing.
In order to continue our much-needed work and continued pressure on the Biden Administration, we need your support.
Giving Tuesday is tomorrow. Please help us kick off one of the most important days of the year for the nonprofit sector with a gift as generous as you can muster.
When you do, know that your gift helps WOLA stand up to say, “We must help the mother from El Salvador arriving with her two-year-old son...the seventeen year-old from Honduras fleeing gang violence...the mother of three kids from Venezuela who can no longer feed her family.” They are all worthy of support.
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