Other Organizations
Immigration Law and Justice Network
https://www.azjfon.org/
Contact: alba@ILJnetwork.org
ILJ Network is engaged in serving immigrants as they seek
legal status in the United States, by providing free or
low-cost expert legal counsel, advocacy, and support
services. Through affiliated sites across the country, they
pursue justice for all those they serve, while offering a
sense of safety, trust, and belonging.
Border Community Alliance (BCA)
https://bordercommunityalliance.org/
Contact: info@bordercommunityalliance.org
Border Community Alliance offers access to the heritage and
potential of the borderlands through cultural exchange and social
advocacy. This work is
accomplished in partnership with FESAC
(Fundación del Empresariado Sonorense, A.C.)
a Sonoran community foundation. We aim to provide a community
service of public benefit by connecting people and cultures across
borders in the cultivation of awareness and a positive sense of
international community. We provide opportunities for learning via
experiential cultural programs to residents and visitors of
Southern Arizona.
The Colibri Center for Human Rights
www.colibricenter.org
520-724-8644
“The Colibri Center for Human Rights
promotes healing and change by working with families of
disappeared migrants to identify and honor those who have lost
their lives on
the US-Mexico Center. Through the Missing
Migrant Project and DNA Program, Colibri works with medical
examiners to compare information families provide about the
missing as well as DNA samples with unidentified remains recovered
along the border in the hopes of giving families the answers they
so deserve. Beyond
forensic justice work, Colibri and impacted families build
community and advocate for change through the Family Network, a
network of mutual support and solidarity among families and
friends of missing migrants across the Americas.”
Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project
https://firrp.org/
520-777-5600
“The Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights
Project provides free legal and social services to detained adults
and children under threat of deportation.
Although the government assists indigent criminal defendants and
civil litigants through public defenders and legal aid attorneys,
it does not provide attorneys for people in immigration removal
proceedings. As a result, an estimated 86 percent of the detained
people go unrepresented due to poverty. The Florence Project
strives to address this inequity both locally and nationally
through direct service, partnerships with the community, and
advocacy and outreach efforts.”
Green
Valley-Sahuarita Samaritans
www.gvs-samaritans.org
Contact: gvs.samaritans@gmail.com
“The mission of Samaritans is to save lives and relieve suffering
in the Arizona borderlands.
The conditions at our border have changed since our
founding in 2005 and yet we are still focused on this same
mission. We accomplish
our mission through the six main activities of desert searches,
water drops, shelters, El Comedor, Operation Streamline, and
communications.”
Salvavision
https://www.salvavision.org/
Contact: info@salvavision.org
“Salvavision is a Tucson, Arizona-based organization providing aid
and support to asylum seekers, migrants that are passing through
or being dropped off by cartel or deported by Border Patrol in the
remote town of Sasabe, Sonora. The organization also has
partnerships to support returnees who have been deported to their
home countries.
A core initiative in conjunction
with the town of Sasabe, Sonora, is Casa de la Esperanza Resource
Center, providing many services to asylum seekers, migrants, and
residents of Sasabe.
The Sidewalk School in Reynosa and Matarmoros
https://www.sidewalkschool.org/
The Sidewalk School is a minority led and operated rapid response
organization fighting for equity and safety for asylum seekers at
the U.S.-Mexico border by working to holistically meet the basic
needs of the most vulnerable. We work alongside asylum seekers to
empower, advocate and influence policy that advances the rights of
those seeking protection.
Witness at the Border
https://witnessattheborder.org/
The Witness project — the “subversive act of seeing” — began
outside the migrant child detention tent facility in Tornillo TX
in 2018.
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