BORDER ANGELS, San Diego, CA Videos

This past weekend, as the temperature rose into the 100s we headed into the desert for our July Water Drop. Due to the excessive heat, we opened this event only to experienced hikers with prior water drop experience. Along with the commitment to preventing desert deaths, we also uphold the responsibility of ensuring the safety of all of our volunteers. We are so grateful to this group for spending their long holiday weekend in support of our mission of love. With their help, we were able to leave water alongside care packages with socks, bandanas, electrolytes, etc. Our upcoming Water Drop sign-up links will be posted soon. For more information, you can email our coordinator at [email protected]. You can find both our wishlist and donate to our Water Drop program through the link in bio or story highlights. Eres muy fuerte, (You are very string) Border Angels #borderangels #waterdrop #donate

Starting the week spreading the love and gratitude on behalf of Jardin de las Mariposas. When you support our Shelter Aid program you assist shelters like this one for LGBTQI+ migrants on the move seeking refuge, asylum and other displaced persons. Your generous donations help them along with 13 other shelters in Tijuana with funds for meals, rent, utilities, and more!Click the link in bio to donate🦋🌈🩷#shelteraid #borderangels #donate

Casa de Oracion del Migrante would like to extend a thank you to Border Angels and to all of you for your generous donations to our Shelter Aid program. Two years ago, with your help, we were also able to provide a car for this shelter and we are happy to report it is still being used to meet all the needs of this shelter! Your contributions helps them 13 other shelters pay for groceries, rent, utilities and more. #shelteraid #borderangels #donate

We are so excited to announce the partnership with Director Alex Ramsey and Cross Cut Pictures on the short film Limbo! Limbo is the story of a young man named Edward, who came to the US from Mexico on foot 10 years ago in search of a better life. Finding his path to citizenship bureaucratically impeded, possibly forever, he grapples with the idea of leaving the life he built in New York behind forever in exchange for a long overdue homecoming. Will Edward reunite with his family or continue in his precarious liminal state? You can watch the full film here: https://vimeo.com/829236737 Director | Alex Ramsey Executive Producer | Border Angels Producer | Claudia Herbert Colfer Producer | Eric Cook Featuring | Edward Martinez Cinematographer | Daniel Vignal Original Score | Andy Huckvale Editors | Alex Ramsey & Nina Thomas @Cross Cut Post Colorist | Kaitlyn Battistelli @Ethos Studio Lead Compositor | Alejandro Taylor CG Artist | Dylan Blau @Spice Cabinet Sound Design | Alex Ramsey Sound Mixer & Additional Sound Design | Zoltan Juhasz Co-Producer & Post Production Coordinator | Chelsea Kaiser Co-Executive Producers | Claudia Herbert Colfer & Alex Ramsey Color Producer | Nat Tereschenko @Ethos Studio Musicians | Andy Huckvale, Joe Zeitlin & Carl Raven Steadicam | Sam Stephan & Jeff Clanet First Assistant Camera | Rob Lau & Jake Shapiro Loader | Hallie Arias Gaffer | Jorge Inglesias Production Assistant | Nyle Higgs Developed & Produced by ©Cross Cut Pictures #limbo #borderangels #shortfilm

Our Voice Nuestra Voz reached out to us a while back, and while the pandemic halted our meeting for a bit, last week they were able to finally join us on Water Drop upon our reopening all the way from New Orleans. OVNV I is a nation-building organization, anchoring ancestry while building Black and Brown solidarity. They did so by spending time not only with us, but with organizations like Haitian Bridge Alliance. Even though they don’t find themselves living on the U.S /Mexico border they understood that the immigration policies still continue to affect the communities they serve. As OVNV founder Marydee recognized “Louisiana has become the second largest (immigration) detention hub in the US making it the incarceration and detention capital of the world.“ The energy and spirit that all of the participants had was inspiring! We are so touched by how much peace and love they brought to the desert along with the supplies we left behind. At the beginning of the trek, the participants started singing and really brought out their spiritual energy, and at the end, they left a moment of silence for those who had lost their lives and did a cleanse for the group. We are so grateful for their presence, and healing brought to spaces like the desert which are so thoroughly filled with trauma. THANK YOU OVNV! We also want to shout out Albana and Lia, our safety monitors! With this group, we were able to replenish sites through which we found consumed items and leave over a dozen gallons and packages including pop-top cans, cooling blankets, long sleeve t-shirts, electrolyte packets, and more. If your school/group/organization would like to join us or find out what other educational opportunities are available please email us at [email protected] today! #borderangels #waterdrop #educationalgroups

When you support our Shelter Aid program you help us provide meals for migrant families! Check out the latest dinner from our supported shelter Volviendo a la Patria! Our migrant friends dined on some bacon-wrapped pork loin, carne con chile stew, and rice. Our Shelter Aid program continues to provide holistic support to 15 shelters in Tijuana, feeding and assisting hundreds of migrants daily. Help us help migrant families as we cover rent, utilities, groceries, provide mental health workshops and services through our partnership with Psicologos Sin Fronteras, B.C. You can donate to help our shelter network here: borderangels.org/donate #shelteraid #borderangels #donate

Meet Nilson, our first Familias Reunidas bond fund recipient this year! He is a 45-year-old recipient from Peru who spent 7 months inside the Otay Mesa Detention Center. He shares the following message: “Good morning, I am Nilson Morales, I want to thank through this media platform the organization Border Angels for securing my freedom by paying my [immigration] bond. I hope God continues to bless you all for supporting immigrants like me. Good luck. Thank you!” If you would like to help others like Nilson you can donate through the link in bio, your donation goes towards freeing someone from detention! If your loved one is in the Otay Mesa, Adelanto, or Imperial Regional Detention Center and you need assistance paying for their bond, you can fill out an application on our website. #BorderAngels #FamiliasReunidas #BondProgram

Celebrating on this lovely Thursday as another group is headed to the US after we assisted them through Title 42 exemptions, a process exclusive to asylum seekers who have been in our supported shelters. “A small but mighty group, thank you Border Angels!” We share in their excitement and want to thank all of you, as we could not do this work without you, and without the amazing partnership with Psicologos Sin Fronteras, B.C. Thank you for your continued support and for helping us bring this small but incredibly important relief at the border to the families who have been waiting up to two years for a chance to present their asylum case. #BorderAngels #Title42Exemptions #Asylum

Another family has safely crossed to the US after we assisted them through Title 42 exemptions, a process exclusive to asylum seekers who have been in our supported shelters. This family has the following message: “We want to thank Casa Puerta de La Esperanza shelter and Border Angels for giving us the opportunity to cross into the US and start our asylum case proceedings.” We want to extend that thank you, as we could not do this work without you, and without the amazing partnership with Psicologos Sin Fronteras, B.C. Thank you for your continued support and for helping us bring this small but incredibly important relief at the border to the families who have been waiting up to two years for a chance to present their asylum case. #BorderAngels #Title42Exemptions #Asylum

We received more videos of families whom we helped through our Title 42 exemption, a process exclusive to asylum seekers who have been in our supported shelters. This group included Haitian and Central American families, including two children! We even received an update once they were safely in their hotel. We could not do this work without you, and without the amazing partnership with Psicologos Sin Fronteras, B.C. Thank you for your continued support and for helping us bring this small but incredibly important relief at the border to the families who have been waiting up to two years for a chance to present their asylum case. #BorderAngels #Title42Exemptions #Asylum

We received a video from Erick, whom we helped through our Title 42 exemption, a process exclusive to asylum seekers who have been in our supported shelters. He shares a quick and sweet message of gratitude to us, our supported shelter Volviendo a la Patria, and to all of you! We could not do this work without you, and without the amazing partnership with Psicologos Sin Fronteras, B.C. Thank you for your continued support and for helping us bring this small but incredibly important relief at the border to the families who have been waiting up to two years for a chance to present their asylum case. #BorderAngels #Title42Exemptions #Asylum

We received another lovely video to lift our spirits this week! We continue our work with Title 42 exemptions, a process exclusive to asylum seekers who have been in our supported shelters. This past Saturday, we assisted asylum seekers from Jardin de las Mariposas. Jardin de las Mariposas provides housing and assistance to members of the LGBTQI+ migrant and asylum-seeking community, as well as HIV+ persons. Many of the people who have been presented at the border under Title 42 exemptions and are part of the LGBTQI+ community have been identified through this shelter. Thank you for your continued support and helping us bring this small but incredibly important relief at the border to the families who have been waiting up to two years for a chance to present their asylum case. Link in bio to donate. #BorderAngels #Title42Exemptions #Asylum

Our friends at Volviendo a la Patria shelter celebrated Ms. Vanessa’s birthday, who is part of the shelter direction, with chiles rellenos. Volviendo a la Patria houses many diverse people, including these Haitian migrants trying chiles rellenos for the first time. Thanks to your generous donations and helping feed our migrant siblings. #BorderAngels #ShelterAid #Tijuana

“What we have to remind ourselves with the prior administration is they created a humanitarian crisis by closing the border. So, policies like Title 42 and Remain in Mexico have caused an accumulation of migrants in the Tijuana border for example. What that has meant for migrants in the last two years is that they had to wait in danger, in Mexico, for their court hearings. So it’s very different from what we had before where migrants were able to present themselves at the port of entry be, processed into the United States, make their claim for asylum, go in front of an immigration judge after an extreme vetting process and make their claim. That stopped with the prior administration, and unfortunately with this current Biden administration, these policies are still ongoing.” Thanks to the crew from Morning Rush and everyone at Newsy for chatting with us and informing their listeners on the causes and dangers of inhumane border policies, and the tragic loss of 51 migrants this Monday in San Antonio. #BorderAngels #SanAntonio

KYR/ IMMDEF/ CHA
IMMDEF/ CHA Know your Rights (creole)

My Meeting
KYR/ IMMDEF Law Center/ CHA (Spanish)

Next Monday, barring any judicial surprises, the era of Title 42 will end. The law provides for the blocking of migrants' entry for health security reasons, has been applied by the Trump administration in the height of the pandemic and has been kept up by Biden, at least until now. The administration predicts that with the removal of Title 42, approximately eighteen thousand people will try to cross the border every day. Precisely in California, in San Diego County, we walked a section of the path used by illegal immigrants in an attempt to escape the Border Patrol. Even in recent months the desert of the Jacumba mountains has killed hundreds of people, migrants struck down by the fury of the elements whose bodies are often not even found. Accompanying us is Dulce Garcia, Executive Director of the Border Angels humanitarian organization. The "border angels" leave cans of water, food and clothing along the border paths for migrants to use. Dulce arrived in the United States as a child and despite the difficulties she managed to become a lawyer specializing in the rights of migrants. Read the full article here: http://ow.ly/jMW450JfYUB

Immigration and Inclusion
A talk on migration, inclusion, and persons with disabilities. With motivational speaker, author, and activist Alex Montoya.

We are so grateful to the University of San Diego and the School of Leadership and Education Sciences for choosing Border Angels as the 2022 winners of the Kaleidoscope Award for Good Governance Small Organization category. We want to thank USD, our incredible board, our staff, our volunteers, our supporters, and everyone who helps us continue our mission of love! Check out the ceremony highlights and some words from our Executive Director Dulce Garcia and Board President Luis Aragon.