Change brings opportunity.
Opportunity for growing and thinking of new ways to overcome difficult problems.
The challenges immigrants and our community face today require us to work smarter.
Likewise, transparency, accountability and ensuring a safe and welcoming environment to all who join us are indispensable if we are to fulfill our humanitarian mission of service.
We begin our new chapter with the benefit of our past history of service.
Border Angels has proven the power of one and the unstoppable power of many.
Love has no borders.
From President of the Board of Directors, Luis Aragon
Enrique Morones, founder and Executive Director of Border Angels, announces his retirement from Border Angels leadership before the end of the year.
As the founder of Balboa Park’s House of Mexico, Enrique will be stepping down from being Executive Director of Border Angels and be more involved with the House of Mexico and Gente Unida. Mr. Morones founded Border Angels in 1986, and has since dedicated his life to the prevention of thousands of migrant deaths that happen on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Border Angels is a volunteer, non-profit organization that advocates for human rights, humane immigration reform, and social justice with a special focus on issues related to the US-Mexican border. Border Angels engages in community education and awareness programs that include guided trips to the desert to place water along migrant crossing routes as well as to the border to learn about the history of U.S.-Mexico border policy and experience the border fence firsthand.
As Border Angels has grown in size and stature over the years and as the issues at the border continue to intensify, Border Angels now proudly announces bold new leadership to lead the organization into the next decades. Effective November 2, 2019, Dulce Garcia will serve as its Executive Director. She received a bachelor’s degree in political science from University of California – San Diego and received her law degree from Cleveland Marshall College of Law. Dulce has worked with Border Angels since 2017.
Border Angels board president, Luis Aragon, said: “Border Angels extends deep gratitude to Enrique for his many decades of service to Border Angels, and wishes him continued success with the House of Mexico.” Morones said: “It has been my personal mission, and that of Border Angels, to ensure that immigrants are received with a sense of humanity and compassion, and that the cycle of death along the border did not continue into the coming years.” “As I shift my focus to cultural preservation, my best wishes are to Border Angels.”
