The Freedom for Families Act On April 29, 2021, Representative Jamila Jayapal and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Freedom for Families Act, legislation proposing an end to the current practice of detaining children and families who have arrived at the U.S. border...
What does organizing at the border look like during the pandemic? On International Workers’ Day, May 1, 2021 at 12 noon CST, Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera is hosting a Spanish-English bilingual webinar where speakers will address the impact of COVID-19 and the...
In the News: Immigration. Unaccompanied minors. Terrible holding facilities. Overstays in detention. COVID. Asylum seekers. Families being sent back. Smugglers. It‘s all so confusing. As you hear journalists describing the problems at the border do you find...
A NOTE OF THANKS: In Fall 2020, Women on the Border launched an emergency relief campaign for a teenager migrant from Guinea, a country in West Africa. Mamadou is here legally as a refugee. The bit of financial help he received was put to good use. Below is an...
Reaching Out to One of the Co-Founders of Women on the Border. I met Josefina Castillo when she was the Director of the Austin chapter of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). The AFSC is the social justice arm of the Quakers. A few months after I published...
