In recent years, and especially during 2018-2020, this organization helped raise awareness and funds to aid immigrants seeking shelter or legal aid. Some of us on the Board volunteered to help migrants fill out asylum applications. They were temporary detainees at...
During the Trump era (2017-2020), corporations that profit from detention, especially those at the U.S.-Mexico border did very well. Mr. Trump is running again for a second presidency. His allies have put together an agenda known as Project 25 to support his vision,...
The Rio Grande Valley, or el Valle del Rio Bravo, is a collection of small town border communities in Texas. The region is well known to Texans as a citrus center for agriculture, home for the delicious red grapefruit. Lacking a major city center it is also known as...
The Board of Directors for Women on the Border voted to support this humanitarian cause. The Mother’s Day in Gaza Quilt Project is a compassion and peace-based cultural arts education and fundraising initiative. The Mother’s Day in Gaza Quilt Project...
Women on the Border mourns the loss of documentary filmmaker and activist Lourdes Portillo, who passed away in late April, in San Francisco, California. In 2002, award winning filmmaker Lourdes Portillo released Señorita Extraviada, or Young Missing Woman,...
