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Happy Mother's Day on behalf of Border Angels!
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Volviendo A Casa
(New Program "Returning Home")
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Jovanny Guadalupe Pava Inzuza was 29 years old from Guasave, Sinaloa. He was a loving father who is survived by four small children ages 8, 4, 2 years old, and a 3-month-old. His children, parents, and siblings are waiting to say their final goodbye and give him a proper burial. Jovanny’s dream was to start earning dollars so his family and children could have a better future. He drowned and was found by someone walking in Ocean Beach, San Diego as his body was washed up to shore.
We are overcome with emotion as we take on another devastating case, and lose another migrant life. 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, opportunity, and dreams. Through this Volviendo a Casa program, we also wish to reiterate that migrant lives are not disposable.
Click Here to donate to this program.
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Elobardo Garcia Lopez was 37-year-old from a small pueblo in Michoacan called Axaxacualco. Eleobardo was a loving husband and father of 3 small children ages 15, 13, and 3. His 3-year-old has a severe heart problem and his goal was to migrate to the US to be able to work and raise money to start the heart treatment for his son. Sadly he passed away trying, in the same boat accident that took the life of Jovanny, whose family we helped last week. Border patrol reached out to his wife when the body was found as Eleobardo had his wallet with his driver's license inside. His wife, kids, siblings, and the whole town are waiting for him to give him a proper burial and their final goodbyes. May he Rest In Peace.
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Border Angels continues to support 17 migrant shelters in Tijuana. Thanks to your support, we can continue helping them pay for rent, utilities, and groceries to have dinners like this one at Puerta de Esperanza. Migrants and asylum seekers remain in Tijuana as a result of Title 42 and they need your help!
Click Here to donate to our Shelter Aid program.
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Celebrating Children's Day (April 30th)
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April 30th is known in Mexico as “Did del Niño” or Children’s Day, an annual celebration dedicated to alliance and understanding of childhood in the world, in which activities are carried out to promote the well-being and rights of children. It is customary to give gifts to children and toys are distributed to the most vulnerable populations. Cultural and entertainment activities, as well as artistic workshops, are organized throughout the country to promote the well-being and rights of children.
Many of the 17 shelters we support house migrant families and children, and with your continued support, they celebrated today’s festivities. Sometimes they celebrate with dance parties, sometimes they celebrate with ice cream, and with your help, they can keep on celebrating just being a kid today despite everything else they face on a daily basis.
Click here to donate to Shelter Aid
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Customs and Border Protection organizes to process a limited number of particularly vulnerable asylum seekers
Asylum processing at U.S. ports of entry has been largely closed for years due to a pandemic policy known as Title 42 that says border officials can keep out asylum seekers and other undocumented migrants and expel those who enter the United States without permission. The policy has been controversial from the beginning because it forces asylum seekers — who have a legal right in the United States to be screened to see if they qualify as refugees — to wait indefinitely in dangerous conditions. Human Rights First has documented more than 10,000 violent attacks in Mexico on asylum seekers affected by the program since the Biden administration took office.
In the meantime, Garcia was approached by CBP to organize with the Tijuana shelters, which Border Angels supports through monetary and other donations, to identify especially vulnerable asylum seekers staying in the shelters who should be exempted from Title 42 and transport them to the border for processing.
It began with just 10 people crossing per day, and that has grown to 35. At one point CBP asked Garcia to increase to 50, but she didn’t have the resources to make that happen right away. Officials have since told her that the capacity for her process will remain at 35, she said, which is supposed to run through May 23 and perhaps longer depending on what happens in the next few weeks.
Every day, Border Angels identifies 35 names from a list of asylum-seeking families that Garcia made with help and input from shelter directors. The list prioritizes those with medical conditions, including pregnant women, asylum seekers who are part of the LGBTQ community and those who have been living in the shelters for more than a year.
Border Angels’ executive director Dulce Garcia said she has received videos from families thanking her organization after they reach their loved ones in the United States. “This is life saving for them,” Garcia said. “They were very much at risk of losing their lives while they were waiting.”
Read Full Article Here
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Woman trying to cross border wall with harness becomes trapped, dies
A woman died on the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Arizona after she tried using a harness to lower herself down and her leg became entangled, authorities said. The 32-year-old woman, who had been attempting to climb a section of fence in Cochise County on April 11, became "trapped upside down for a significant amount of time," the local sheriff's office said in a statement.
Between 1998 and 2020, more than 8,000 people are known to have died trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. Border Angels, a nonprofit group that advocates for the prevention of migrant deaths on the border, says the actual death toll is likely far higher than CBP data suggests, and that human remains often disappear into the desert's harsh environment.
We are devastated at the news of another tragic loss of life, and we denounce this wall and laws driving our migrant siblings to extreme situations. May she rest in peace.
Read Full Article Here
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DHS Secretary Defends Title 42 Border Policies:
"COVID has always been the excuse, it's no longer a secret the implementation of Title 42 was just the purpose of dehumanizing our migrant community and creating policies that would deter people from showing up at the border and asking for their rightful claim to asylum." 
-Dulce Garcia, Executive Director of Border Angels
Check out Dulce Garcia speak on Title 42, the processing of Ukrainian refugees and refusal of the processing of all other migrants of color due to this policy, COVID, and more!
Watch more here
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Thank you to California Immigrant Policy Center, San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium, and everyone who participated in another amazing Immigrant Day of Action! We are so happy to have been on the San Diego delegation and pushing for important bills to protect our beloved communities like #Food4All the #VisionAct #Health4All and more!
"Advancing the civil and human rights of immigrants and refugees is impossible without the advocacy of activists and voices of impacted community members." - Patricia Mondragon, Regional Policy Manager
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BA and International Studies Schools Network
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Thank you to International Studies Schools Network (ISSN) for featuring Dulce Garcia as their keynote speaker last month, and to High Tech High Middle School for hosting us!
ISSN is an organization of schools across the country that works to develop Globally Competent learners. They base their curriculum connections on global issues and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Immigration, Migration, and Refugees are some of their topic areas. Their students are given opportunities to investigate issues both locally and globally, recognize perspectives, communicate ideas, and take action to address the issue either from a local standpoint or on a global scale.
Thank you for taking the time to learn about Border Angels, and complex local and global immigration policies and issues! If you would like to have us at your next presentation or event, email us at [email protected]
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Rocking out with Moonchild
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Huge thanks to Moonchild , the three-person ever-evolving fusion of alternative R&B and neo-soul band and Sofiya Abena Ballin for inviting us this past Saturday! Sofiya Abena Ballin is a Caribbean-American writer, journalist, and producer. In each city on Moonchild's Starfruit Tour, Ballin will be onstage and interviewing extraordinary members of the communities they visit, people who are dedicating their lives to making a positive impact on others and bettering the world around them.
At their San Diego concert, Dulce Garcia and Border Angels was the organization highlighted onstage at The Music Box. We are so grateful to artists and creators like Moonchild and Sofiya.
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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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