Hi everyone! Within recent months, I’m sure you’ve noticed that there is greater news coverage on immigration at the border. If you would like to help and have a bit of fun, Leanne, Diarra, Max, Lauren, Carolyn, Jillian and I will be hosting a guest bartending fundraiser for Border Angels on Aug 3 from 6-8pm! All of our cash and credit card tips will be donated to Border Angel's, so come thru and bring friends! If you can’t come, please donate. Here is a link to Border Angel’s PayPal donation page: https://www.borderangels.org/paypal-donations/---------------------------------------------------------------Border Angels is an all volunteer, non profit organization that advocates for human rights, humane immigration reform, and social justice with a special focus on issues related to issues related to the US-Mexican border. Border Angels engages in community education and awareness programs that include guided trips to the desert to place water along migrant crossing routes as well as to the border to learn about the history of US-Mexico border policy and experience the border fence firsthand.For more information, check out their Facebook page @BORDER ANGELS or website at https://www.borderangels.org/.---------------------------------------------------------------Facts:- More than 50% of immigrants at the southern border are from Central America’s Northern Triangle - Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador. These countries were hit with civil wars in the 1980s, which left behind a legacy of political instability and violence. Corrupt governments, high homicide rates, gang violence and violence against women have lead people to flee these countries and seek asylum in the US and Mexico. - Beginning in 2012, unaccompanied minors and families from Central America began to arrive in greater numbers. In recent months, the percentage of families and unaccompanied children is 60 percent of the total, as opposed to 10 percent in 2012. [1] The number of asylum seekers worldwide originating from the Northern Triangle reached 110,000 in 2015, a five-fold increase from 2012. [2] With stricter security at the border, there have been an increasing number of deaths as migrants take riskier paths to seek asylum in the US. There are also migrant detention centers housing migrants that are overcrowded/unhygienic with not enough food, water and supplies. Some of these facilities were built over a decade ago and were just meant to provide holding cells for mostly men for a few hours. These facilities are really not meant to detain people for weeks.If you feel called to help or want to help/donate, my friend Sasha recommended Border Angels. She’s actually been out on a desert water drop with them. WHICH LEADS ME TO THIS…The “crisis” at the border is not the numbers who are arriving but the system’s failure to respond in a humane, efficient, and orderly way in light of the government’s legal obligations and the number of migrants who are seeking protection. [1] If you would like to help and have a bit of fun, please come to Soda Popinski's!If you can’t come, please donate! If you have any other questions, let me know. Here is a link to Border Angel’s PayPal donation page: https://www.borderangels.org/paypal-donations/“Just two points. One is that people migrate for the same reasons they always have: to seek safety and opportunity for themselves and their children. Laws and punishment won’t change that fundamental human imperative. It can be addressed only through changing conditions in countries of origin. Second, immigration is not a threat or a danger to our country or our values. At every point in our history new immigrants have been viewed with suspicion and hostility, and some political leaders have always tried to exploit and inflame those fears. But history also shows that in every case, new immigrants have fueled the American experience, have become part of the American people, have adopted English in every successive generation, and have contributed beyond measure to our intellectual, cultural, economic, and political life and success.” from “Crisis at the Border? An Update on Immigration Policy with Stanford’s Lucas Guttentag”Thank you for reading this ?Sources:[1] https://law.stanford.edu/2019/04/22/crisis-at-the-border-an-update-on-immigration-policy-with-stanfords-lucas-guttentag/[2] https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/central-americas-violent-northern-triangle
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Hi everyone! Within recent months, I’m sure you’ve noticed that there is greater news coverage on immigration at the border. If you would like to help and have a bit of fun, Leanne, Diarra, Max, Lauren, Carolyn, Jillian and I will be hosting a guest bartending fundraiser for Border Angels on Aug 3 from 6-8pm! All of our cash and credit card tips will be donated to Border Angel's, so come thru and bring friends! If you can’t come, please donate. Here is a link to Border Angel’s PayPal donation page: https://www.borderangels.org/paypal-donations/---------------------------------------------------------------Border Angels is an all volunteer, non profit organization that advocates for human rights, humane immigration reform, and social justice with a special focus on issues related to issues related to the US-Mexican border. Border Angels engages in community education and awareness programs that include guided trips to the desert to place water along migrant crossing routes as well as to the border to learn about the history of US-Mexico border policy and experience the border fence firsthand.For more information, check out their Facebook page @BORDER ANGELS or website at https://www.borderangels.org/.---------------------------------------------------------------Facts:- More than 50% of immigrants at the southern border are from Central America’s Northern Triangle - Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador. These countries were hit with civil wars in the 1980s, which left behind a legacy of political instability and violence. Corrupt governments, high homicide rates, gang violence and violence against women have lead people to flee these countries and seek asylum in the US and Mexico. - Beginning in 2012, unaccompanied minors and families from Central America began to arrive in greater numbers. In recent months, the percentage of families and unaccompanied children is 60 percent of the total, as opposed to 10 percent in 2012. [1] The number of asylum seekers worldwide originating from the Northern Triangle reached 110,000 in 2015, a five-fold increase from 2012. [2] With stricter security at the border, there have been an increasing number of deaths as migrants take riskier paths to seek asylum in the US. There are also migrant detention centers housing migrants that are overcrowded/unhygienic with not enough food, water and supplies. Some of these facilities were built over a decade ago and were just meant to provide holding cells for mostly men for a few hours. These facilities are really not meant to detain people for weeks.If you feel called to help or want to help/donate, my friend Sasha recommended Border Angels. She’s actually been out on a desert water drop with them. WHICH LEADS ME TO THIS…The “crisis” at the border is not the numbers who are arriving but the system’s failure to respond in a humane, efficient, and orderly way in light of the government’s legal obligations and the number of migrants who are seeking protection. [1] If you would like to help and have a bit of fun, please come to Soda Popinski's!If you can’t come, please donate! If you have any other questions, let me know. Here is a link to Border Angel’s PayPal donation page: https://www.borderangels.org/paypal-donations/“Just two points. One is that people migrate for the same reasons they always have: to seek safety and opportunity for themselves and their children. Laws and punishment won’t change that fundamental human imperative. It can be addressed only through changing conditions in countries of origin. Second, immigration is not a threat or a danger to our country or our values. At every point in our history new immigrants have been viewed with suspicion and hostility, and some political leaders have always tried to exploit and inflame those fears. But history also shows that in every case, new immigrants have fueled the American experience, have become part of the American people, have adopted English in every successive generation, and have contributed beyond measure to our intellectual, cultural, economic, and political life and success.” from “Crisis at the Border? An Update on Immigration Policy with Stanford’s Lucas Guttentag”Thank you for reading this ?Sources:[1] https://law.stanford.edu/2019/04/22/crisis-at-the-border-an-update-on-immigration-policy-with-stanfords-lucas-guttentag/[2] https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/central-americas-violent-northern-triangle
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