Mourning the 51 lives lost in San Antonio.

Mourning the 51 lives lost in San Antonio
We are heartbroken.

In our many years of border work, hearing the lengths to which our migrant siblings must go and risk their lives still hurts us to the core. Urging us to continue to advocate against the laws directly responsible for events like this past Monday’s tragedy, where 51 lives were lost after they were abandoned in a truck in San Antonio.

In recent years, policies like Title 42 and Migrant Protection Protocols in combination with decades of cruel border policies, further place migrants at risk, driving them to extreme measures upon crossing. US immigration policy has left migrant communities with no pathways, no support, and exposed to record-breaking heatwaves.

"It is a direct consequence of policies that make the journey longer, more difficult, or more expensive. And the desperation of the people who are in border shelters right now is such that they are willing to risk their lives, because for them, either way, death is persecuting them," Dulce García, director of the organization for the defense of migrants Border Angels, tells BBC Mundo.

We know, firsthand, working with 17 border shelters, that there are people in shelters on the Mexican border who have been waiting for almost two years for a refugee application in the US. The desperation has led people to attempt suicide, to send their children across the border alone, and so many other extreme situations such as the ones we saw this Monday.

We demand lawmakers look at the repercussions of upholding and creating unjust and deadly policies, and we demand the end of Title 42. People deserve a right to migrate with dignity and respect, to seek asylum, and to live. We mourn this horrific loss; May they rest in peace.

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Shelter Aid:
Executive Director Dulce Garcia met with the directors of the 17 shelters we support in Tijuana last week. This was the first time she has met with everyone in-person after starting our work with Title 42 exemptions.
Although we hold Zoom shelter convenings regularly, this is the first time that all directors were able to meet each other for the first time, exchange stories, and advice, and share all of their experiences with shelter work. These meetings also help us recognize what the specific and collective needs of our shelter network are.

We cannot express how grateful we are for their care and compassion for the migrant and asylum-seeking communities in Tijuana, and their selfless advocacy for their many residents.

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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 eliminate the possibility of asylum for our migrant siblings. Our shelters support Mexican, Central American, Haitian, and Afghan families, as well as members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and more.

We need your help to continue to assist migrant families!

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BA IN THE NEWS

For Haitian migrants, waiting in Tijuana brings fear, discrimination, even death
Two Haitian migrants in Tijuana were the most recent to die under circumstances that the community attributes to systemic racism in Mexico’s hospitals and U.S. border policy
In the last phone conversation that Pethou Archange had with her younger brother, he told her that he had a surprise for her birthday.

The next day, Archange, 41, received a call that her brother had died in Tijuana, becoming the latest in the city’s Haitian community to make headlines for a death that might have been prevented but for the overlapping effects of U.S. border policies and systemic racism in Mexico.
“Migrants don’t have a right to medical care. They don’t have a right to anything,” Archange said in Spanish, which she learned living in the Dominican Republic and Chile. “They’re discriminated against a lot here in Tijuana.”

Her brother’s funeral last week was joined with that of fellow Haitian Jocelyn Anselme, who was beaten and robbed while walking home. He died a few days later after being turned away from a Tijuana hospital, according to Haitian Bridge Alliance.
While the U.S. this week at the Summit of the Americas promised to take in more Haitian refugees, those statements don’t mean much for the reality of those who are already waiting at the United States border to be let in.

Both Jesucristo Vive and Templo Embajadores de Jesus who are part of our shelter network, support hundreds of Haitian families with food, housing, and other necessities. Head to the link in bio to support our Shelter Aid program.

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Migrant child drowns trying to cross into Yuma
According to Yuma Sector Border Patrol, a 5-year-old migrant drowned in the Colorado River on Monday, June 6th attempting to cross into the United States.

In a statement to KYMA, CBP said when the mother was in custody, she told agents she had been separated from her child.

Dulce Garcia, the Executive Director of Border Angels, says her organization urges migrants in Tijuana shelters not to take the risk of crossing through an ocean, river, or mountains to get into the U.S.
But she says they have fled violent situations, so many see getting to the states as their only option.

“Everyone who is getting expelled is trying to cross again and again until they make it or until they perish and that is directly tied to policies like Title 42,” Garcia said.

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Border Patrol investigating coin memorializing treatment of Haitian migrants in Del Rio
A controversial moment captured last fall on the U.S. southern border of an officer on horseback chasing Haitian migrants with his reins raised like a lash in Del Rio, Texas, has been memorialized on “a challenge coin” that has led to an investigation by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Images of the incident led to a public outcry and national scandal, with President Joe Biden demanding accountability for the officers and the Department of Homeland Security launching an independent investigation into the treatment of migrants there. Nearly a year later, the results of the investigation still have not been made public.

“On behalf of Mirard Joseph and the 15,000 Haitian asylum seekers who faced cruelty and brutality in Del Rio, we continue to seek justice in court via Haitian Bridge Alliance v. Biden,” Hellgren said.
Guerline Jozef, co-founder of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, a coalition formed to support Haitians, said that merchandising off the treatment of Haitians in Del Rio is “outrageous” and “beyond inhumane.”

“The fact they have created merchandise depicting the likeness of people who suffered cruel and inhumane treatment should not be tolerated by DHS or the Biden administration,” she said.
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The US sends millions to Mexico for migrants. Tijuana shelters ask where it’s going
Pastor Gustavo Banda Aceves converted his church into a shelter in 2016. Banda Aceves and other Tijuanenses have opened up their spaces to house migrants on the way to the U.S. who might otherwise be on the streets while they wait, some for months or even years, for the U.S. to reopen its asylum process. The U.S. closed doors to asylum seekers in 2020 under the pandemic-era health policy known as Title 42.

As a result, shelters such as Banda Aceves’, intended to temporarily care for migrants, are now housing migrants long-term, a need some say they’re poorly equipped to meet with their limited resources, which include little support from government sources.

U.S.-based organizations also have helped the shelter – one example is the San Diego-based Border Angels, an immigration advocacy nonprofit.

In April, when the Department of Homeland Security predicted up to 18,000 migrants could be arriving at the U.S.’s southern border each day once Title 42 is lifted, communities to the north, including San Diego County, rushed to prepare.

But south of the border in Tijuana, migrant shelters have few resources to help them prepare, said Border Angels Executive Director Dulce García. Her nonprofit supports 17 migrant shelters in Tijuana through donations.

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Historic Health4ALL Win!
California makes history as the FIRST state in the nation to remove exclusions to health care for all income-eligible residents, regardless of age or immigration status!
A Child is a Child

Children in immigrant families face unique mental health challenges and inequities due to anti-immigrant policies that separate families and restrict their access to health and economic support.
The deportation of parents, guardians or caregivers destroys a child’s family structure, placing the child at risk of entering the child welfare system.

There are currently no publicly accessible data systems that directly track the number of children who have been placed in foster care following the detention or deportation of a family member. Several studies have found that children in the foster care system face significant challenges in reunifying with a detained or deported parent
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