10 Humanitarian/Immigrant Advocacy Organizations

Wednesday, 06 April 2011 08:16

Angeles Del Desierto: “We aid search and rescue events, provide food, water, clothing and first aid emergency aid to people found in these extreme conditions until they can be taken to a place where they can further assistance,” according to their website. Additionally, this organization works with churches on both the Mexican and American sides of the border to ensure the safety of immigrants crossing into the United States.

Border Action Network: “We are a membership-based organization that combines grassroots community organizing, leadership development, litigation and policy advocacy” (Border Action Network). Border Action Network was founded in 1999, and serves as an advocacy organization for immigrants and people living on the Arizona/Mexico border.

http://www.borderaction.org/web/index.php

Phone: (520) 623-4944

Border Network for Human Rights: “The BNHR is currently participating in the nation-wide effort to push once again for a comprehensive immigration reform by educating elected officials at every levels of government about the needs of border communities,” according to their website. Located in El Paso, Texas, the Border Network for Human Rights is a humanitarian group dedicated towards assisting immigrants and reforming American policies towards immigration.

http://www.bnhr.org/

Phone: (915) 577-0724

Borderlinks: “BorderLinks is an international leader in experiential education that raises awareness and inspires action around global political economics,” according to their website. Borderlinks began in the 1980s as an organization which focused on educating others on immigration issues in the United States. This group works alongside other humanitarian immigration organizations, and has an office here in Tucson as well.

http://www.borderlinks.org/

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Florence Project: “Although the federal 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,” says the Florence Project website. Since 1989, the Florence Project has offered free legal services to migrants who have been taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol Agents. The organization is located in Florence, Arizona.

http://www.firrp.org/

Phone: (520) 868-0191

Frontera De Christo: “We facilitate the crossing of physical, cultural, political, linguistic, and economic borders, through the interaction of people of diverse backgrounds, and through biblical reflection in the light of our realities,” according to the Frontera De Christo website. Located in Douglas, Arizona, Frontera De Christo is a religious/humanitarian organization which conducts dozens of missions to Mexico each year aimed at raising awareness and education about immigration.

http://www.fronteradecristo.org/

Phone:  (520) 364-9257

Humane Borders: “Hundreds of volunteers bring our mission to life, servicing our water stations, staffing our offices in Tucson, performing maintenance on our equipment and other tasks,” according to the Humane Borders website.  Founded in 2000, the Humane Borders humanitarian organization is run by nearly 200 full-time members who dedicate themselves towards the placement of water stations in the Southern Arizona desert. These water stations are meant to save lives by providing water to migrants traveling by foot through the rough, Arizona terrain.

http://www.humaneborders.org/

Phone: (520) 398-5053

Immigrant Defense Project: “DP promotes a transformation of the criminal justice and immigration systems so that they do not result in the exile of immigrants from their homes and families in the United States,” according to their website. Located in New York, the Immigrant Defense Project is a legal service aimed at defending immigrants from unlawful detainment.

http://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/index.htm

Phone: (212) 725-6486

Immigrant Legal Resource Center: “Developing leadership skills among immigrant and refugee communities is more important now than ever. Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, there has been a widely reported increase in the hostilities, violence and discrimination against immigrant and refugee communities,” according to the ILRC website. The Immigrant Legal Resource Center located in San Francisco, California, is dedicated towards the education and advancement of immigrants in the United States. Specifically, the organization aims to increase immigrant knowledge of their rights here in the U.S.

http://www.ilrc.org/index.php

Phone: (415) 255-9499

No More Deaths: Founded in 2004, No More Deaths is a humanitarian organization located in southern Arizona that provides aid to immigrants, and advocates more lenient, humane immigration policies. The organization operates through the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson and is listed as “one of the church’s ministries,” according to their website. The humanitarian group also has offices located in Flagstaff and Phoenix. Donations to the organization can be made at the No More Deaths’ website:

http://www.nomoredeaths.org/Information/history-and-mission-of-no-more-deaths.html

Phone: (520) 495-5583

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