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CALLING ALL WOMEN ARTISTS: This Women’s History Month we are celebrating artistry and immigrant stories with a design contest! We’re looking for women artists to come up with a design for t-shirts and merchandise. Submit your pictures for a chance to win a basket of merchandise and be credited on our merch
Designs can be any of beautiful stories that include women and migration including but not limited to:
- Immigrant mothers
- 1st-gen women
- Important immigrant woman figures
- Policies affecting immigrant women
- And so much more!
Email us your submission at [email protected]
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Dalmar is a 20-year-old Somalian asylum seeker, who alarmingly spent more than one year inside the Imperial Regional Detention Center, and our most recent Familias Reunidas bond fund recipient. He was trafficked and was able to escape in Brazil. During his time detained, he tried to commit suicide twice. The attorney representing him said that upon the news that he was being released through our bond program, she saw him smile for the first time.
We are heartbroken to know that our immigration system submits the most vulnerable of people to further trauma. Dalmar was imprisoned for more than a year, he was in detention longer than people who have committed crimes and felonies in the U.S., simply for seeking safety within it. While we are saddened to learn of everything he has been through, it further proves how black and brown migrants are disproportionately affected within detention centers.
Click Here to help more people like Dalmar.
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As climate change continues to alter the weather, as a team we are left to adapt with providing the right supplies at a moment’s notice. With a bad storm that hit near the end of last week, our team members went out Saturday and Sunday to leave warm weather and cold weather supplies in areas that have warm temperatures during the day and cold temperatures at night.
A long trek on Saturday, our team handled the distance and terrain well, leaving supplies at six drop sites, stocking these areas up with supplies for whatever the weather may be in that area. Rough terrain made it a challenge of a trek, but the mission was accomplished. Great job Water Drop team!
Until further notice, we are still not taking any new volunteers. Click here to donate
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Our Shelter Aid program continues to support 17 shelters in Tijuana, feeding and assisting hundreds of migrants daily. These spaces remain at max capacity as MPP and Title 42 eliminates the possibility of asylum for our migrant siblings. With the encampment at El Chaparral now decimated, the shelters are the only safe housing for migrant families.
With your generous donations, we are able to feed dozens of families like the ones at Pro Amore Dei. A shelter under the direction of Doña Lety, who is an active part of our mission of love. She treats everyone in her shelter with love, dignity and respect, while making sure they receive food, clothing, and opportunities. The renovations in this shelter have allowed us to help build a room for computer classes, to provide migrant families with various professional skills.
Click Here to donate to our Shelter Aid program.
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Our work and programs stem from services of active love, hoping to reduce hate, harm, and ultimately death upon our migrant communities. Unfortunately, throughout the years, we have seen the tragic loss of life at our southern border and the suffering of so many loved ones. In the hopes of assisting these families, and offer a small bit of peace, we have created our “Volviendo a Casa” program. Through this program and with coordination wit the respective consulates, we help with the transfer and funeral services to those who have lost their lives in the migration journey return to their home country and be laid to rest.
Luis Gustavo Evangelista Gomez was a 22-year-old migrant from the Mexican state of Guerrero and who’s family speaks only Amuzgo, who tragically lost his life when he fell from the border wall while crossing into the US. He passed away while being rushed to Mercy hospital in San Diego. His family and community wished us to share this video with all of you.
While these services and aid are necessary, we also use this opportunity to denounce the forces and policies that force our migrant siblings to inevitably lose their lives in search of safety and opportunity. Through this program we also wish to reiterate that migrant lives are not disposable.
Click Here to donate.
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Harmful Street Vending Ordinance:
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The San Diego City Council took the next step toward passing a harmful sidewalk vendor ordinance that is restrictive and punitive, further targeting and marginalizing immigrants, low income community members, and community members of color. This ordinance will make it near impossible for sidewalk vendors to operate in the City of San Diego in an equitable and prosperous manner, and unfairly excludes immigrants, low income community members, and community members of color from economic recovery by placing unnecessary and unlawful barriers that will prevent sidewalk vendors from accessing the formal economy.
Dulce Garcia, Chair of SDIRC and Executive Director of Border Angels said:
We oppose this ordinance because it is not balanced, rather, it is an attack on our beloved street vendors. Data shows that half of the Covid-19 related deaths in San Diego were from immigrant families. In great part, poverty is a factor contributing to these deaths. Many of our immigrant families turned to street vending to survive. With this law, their ability to earn a livelihood is seriously threatened.
The racist narrative driving this ordinance is that sidewalk vendors are selling drugs, are violent, and are dirty— this is very problematic. Ironically, San Diego calls itself a welcoming city yet it has written right in the preamble of this ordinance this hateful narrative.
The idea of beautifying beaches by kicking out vendors that are predominately black and brown community members is racist.
Further, all pages in the ordinance are focused on restrictions. Only one vague promise of entrepreneurship zones is mentioned without a plan, and without a budget proposal. The city failed to engage street vendors throughout the entire pandemic and once again keeps the most vulnerable out of the conversation. Sadly, the City of San Diego is only listening to affluent business owners and beach communities rather than protecting sidewalk vendors in accordance with state law.
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A message from CA Welcoming Taskforce:
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The DC Circuit Court handed a major victory to families seeking protection from persecution and torture in their home countries in a decision released last Friday. The policy of using “Title 42,” an obscure public health law, to override our asylum statute was instituted by Stephen Miller during the Trump administration but has been embraced and defended in court by the Biden administration. Friday’s ruling confirms what we have continuously advocated that the government cannot expel people to danger under the guise of a sham public health order.
Melina Roche, #WelcomeWithDignity campaign manager issued the following statement:
“Today, with the D.C. Circuit Court’s decision on Title 42, we continue to stand firm on calling on President Biden to end Title 42 and fully restore access to asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, including at ports of entry. It is a contradiction for the United States to roll back COVID-19 restrictions while continuing to use the pandemic as an excuse to prevent people from seeking safety. The Biden administration must finally stop defending this anti-immigrant Trump-era policy and build a fair and humane asylum system that welcomes with dignity.”
To learn more about this and the Welcome With Dignity campaign click here.
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Gavin Newsom proposes funding for migrants at the California-Mexico border.
Communities along the California-Mexico border continue to experience the impact of two intertwined international crises – the rapid influx and arrival of migrants seeking asylum and the ongoing spread of the highly infectious coronavirus.
The state has dedicated funding toward humanitarian services for asylum seekers who have been released from federal immigration custody since before the pandemic. Gov. Gavin Newsom is now proposing to add an extra infusion of money to those efforts.
Read Full Article HereÂ
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We have everything from t-shirts, to totes, to water bottles! All merchandise purchases go towards our programs and life-saving work.
Visit our online shop here.
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Looking for asylum-seeking resources? / Busca recursos sobre asilo?
Visit our page on the link below for the most up-to-date asylum information, including the latest Know Your Rights session presented by Borderline Crisis Center.
Visite nuestra pagina web en el enlace de abajo para la information mas reciente sobre el asilo incluyendo la sesion mas reciente de Conozca Sus Derechos presentada por Borderline Crisis Center.
Click Here
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A quick reminder that there are many ways to support us and get involved with Border Angels!
DM, FB message, or email us any of your questions at [email protected]
We appreciate you!!
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