What is the status of gender justice at the border today? You are invited to come and learn about what working women are doing for gender justice in the maquiladoras along the Texas-Mexico border. Our friends at Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera (ATCF) have organized a...
Women on the Border has received an appeal from the lawyer who helped “Djaili” (a pseudonym), get asylum in the U.S. following the persecution and torture of her for being in a lesbian relationship in Cameroon. Djaili was recently awarded permanent legal...
Women on the Border began in the early 2000s as a project committed to advancing public awareness of the difficult realities for Mexican women working for American companies at the U.S.-Mexico border in the factories known as “maquiladoras.” The...
The detention center in Carrizo Springs, TX reopened in February of 2021 to hold unaccompanied minors crossing the US-Mexico border and surrendering themselves to immigration authorities. Officially designated a “temporary overflow facility,” it continues to hold...
Get to Know We Are Alight With no end in sight of this COVID pandemic, and with no let up on the restrictions for border crossing first imposed by Trump, and still in place under the Biden Administration, one wonders what is happening to migrants who are arriving at...
The Board of Directors for Women on the Border thanks all of those who donated to our migrant rent assistance campaign at the 2021 holiday season. We said any amount helps. We reached the goal of $3,000 and mailed $500 checks to landlords on behalf of six...