observing san diego-tijuana urban life Sierra Club unites with Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference November 2, 2010 Contact: Bill Chandler, MIRA, (601) 968-5183 Sean Sullivan, Sierra Club Borderlands Team, (520) 250-9040 JACKSON, MS – At this year’s 5th annual Unity Conference, sponsored by the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance (MIRA) and […]
San Diego organizations join a borderwide network Contact: Ricardo Favela Strategic Communications Coordinator San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium (760) 468-4519 communicate@immigrantsandiego.org. Louie Gilot Policy Director, Border Network for Human Rights 2115 N. Piedras, El Paso, TX 79930 (915) 274-0541 lgilot@bnhr.org. May 26, 2010 — Organizations representing border communities from San […]
Los Angeles Times by Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times staff writer SAN DIEGO, CA | There are just two weeks left in his presidency, but down in San Diego County the heavy machinery is grinding away at one last grand project from the administration of George W. Bush. As The […]
Are We Being Fair to the Border Patrol? by Jill Holslin SAN DIEGO-TIJUANA | On Thursday, Sept 18, 2008 Border Meetup Director Dan Watman was detained by the Border Patrol in Friendship Park, a small concrete plaza and public park located along the border fence in Border Field State Park, […]
From the SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE August 16, 2008 NO: It will destroy a relationship symbolized by Friendship Park By John Fanestil The Department of Homeland Security will erect a secondary fence across Friendship Park, eliminating public access to a historic place where for generations people from San Diego and […]
North County Times, 6 Aug 2008, By Edward Sifuentes A prominent immigrant rights activist was detained Tuesday for several hours by U.S. Border Patrol agents in San Diego for allegedly paying an illegal immigrant to cross the border. He was later released with no charges filed against him, a spokesman […]
