Our Mission
Border Angels promotes a culture of love through advocacy, education, by creating a social consciousness, and engaging in direct action to defend the rights of migrants and refugees.
Our History
Border Angels was established in 1986 and initially focused on helping farmworker migrants that were living in the canyons of North San Diego County. Since then, our work has expanded to include humanitarian work along the entire US-Mexico border.
"Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world. "
-Dolores Huerta
-Dolores Huerta
Our Work
We conduct water drops in the desert, support migrant shelters in Tijuana, Mexico, reach out to day laborers, free asylum seekers from detention, provide legal representation to vulnerable children in order to obtain green cards, and coordinate educational programs and community presentations.
upcoming events:
Limbo short
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Limbo | Border Angels from Cross Cut Pictures on Vimeo. |
Limbo is the story of a young man named Edward, who came to the US from Mexico, like so many others, in search of a better life and more opportunities to provide for his family. Now 29, Edward hasn't seen his family since he crossed the US-Mexico border on foot 10 years ago. With 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?
We have partnered with the incredible team at Border Angels to promote and distribute this film. Founded in 1986, Border Angels’ mission is to promote a culture of love through advocacy and education, and to engage in direct action to defend the rights of migrants and refugees.
Edward’s story will spark a debate, but that’s the goal. Through this film, we hope to advance the narrative that immigrants are not only deserving of respect and dignity as human beings, but are vital to the health of our nation. We believe that art can be a powerful force for good in this fight.
We have partnered with the incredible team at Border Angels to promote and distribute this film. Founded in 1986, Border Angels’ mission is to promote a culture of love through advocacy and education, and to engage in direct action to defend the rights of migrants and refugees.
Edward’s story will spark a debate, but that’s the goal. Through this film, we hope to advance the narrative that immigrants are not only deserving of respect and dignity as human beings, but are vital to the health of our nation. We believe that art can be a powerful force for good in this fight.
OUR VIDEOS
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Thank you to our donors:
A word from our supporters:
My father, Cesar Chavez, led heroic grape workers around Delano, California in the longest continuing farmworker strike in U.S. history in a profound statement of non-cooperation with a farm labor system that exploits and impoverishes mostly immigrant farm workers. Today, courageous members of the Border Angels are honoring the legacy of my father by making a powerful statement against inhumanity and oppression endured on our border by innocent immigrants.
- PAUL F. CHAVEZ, PRESIDENT, CESAR CHAVEZ FOUNDATION
