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Annie
January 26, 2023  |  By RCM Admin  |  En News

How What I Learned Across the Border Will Impact My Future Career as an Immigration Attorney

Annie joined The Rhizome Center for Migrants’ education program for U.S. immigration advocates, academics, and law students in Guadalajara, August 5-12, 2022. As the recipient of La Michoacana Foundation’s scholarship award for law students interested in pursuing immigrant rights work, we asked Annie to share her thoughts about the program and her experience with us […]

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USC Event
October 24, 2022  |  By RCM Admin  |  En News, Press Release

Co-Deported U.S. Citizen Minors in Mexico are Greeted by Staff of the American Services Unit and Received Important Information on Higher Learning Opportunities

[Guadalajara, Jal. October 24, 2022] The Rhizome Center for Migrants is a U.S. nonprofit based in Guadalajara, Mexico, where we serve the needs of people impacted by return or deportation. Through intervention, we transform the lives of Mexican migrants and their families to build a better North America for everyone. Among those we serve here in […]

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Abi Edited
September 21, 2022  |  By RCM Admin  |  En News, Press Release

The Rhizome Center Announces New Board Member

[Guadalajara, Jal. September 21, 2022] The Rhizome Center for Migrants (www.rhizomecenter.org) is thrilled to announce Abigail Thornton’s addition as the newest member of our board. Abigail “Abi” is an expert on migration, education, and community development with extensive field experience along the U.S.-Mexico border. From 2015-2020, Abi conducted ethnographic research at Casa del Migrante Tijuana’s […]

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Jess Announcement
September 1, 2021  |  By RCM Admin  |  En News, Press Release

The Rhizome Center Announces New Board Member

[Guadalajara, Jal. September 1, 2021] The Rhizome Center for Migrants (www.rhizomecenter.org) is thrilled to announce Jessica Billedo’s addition as the newest member of our board. A native of Chicago, where many overseas Jaliscienses live, Jessica is the Director of Mexico Operations for Coyote Logistics here in Guadalajara and has volunteered with us since 2018. We’re […]

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Families separated by the two countries chat along the U.S.-Mexico border fence at Border Field State Park, California, on Nov. 19, 2016.  Photo courtesy of Reuters/Mike Blake
January 28, 2021  |  By RCM Admin  |  En News

Carta Abierta al Presidente Biden, Patrocinadores del Proyecto de Ley y Líderes de Caucus

Click here to read this letter in English. Estimados Sr. Presidente, Sra. Vicepresidente, Senador Menéndez, Representante Sánchez y dirigentes de caucus: Escribimos como organizaciones de la sociedad civil de Estados Unidos y México que trabajan por los inmigrantes y los inmigrantes retornados de esta región. Los felicitamos por el proyecto del plan de inmigración anunciado […]

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Family Separation
January 28, 2021  |  By RCM Admin  |  En News

Open Letter to President Biden, Bill Sponsors, and Caucus Leadership

Haga clic aquí para ver esta carta en español. Dear Mr. President, Senator Menéndez, Representative Sánchez, and caucus leadership, We are writing as U.S. and Mexican civil society organizations who serve the immigrants and returned immigrants of this region. We congratulate you on the proposed immigration plan announced on January 20, 2021. We celebrate the […]

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Older Persons
June 3, 2020  |  By RCM Admin  |  En News, Press Release

The UN Should Strengthen Recognition and Inclusion of Older People, and Older Migrants, Within the UN System

[Guadalajara, Jal. June 3, 2020] The Rhizome Center for Migrants and more than 100 organizations worldwide have joined with HelpAge International to call for the UN to ensure that, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we build back better and set the stage for a more inclusive and equitable society that considers older people’s rights across […]

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ICE Air
March 18, 2020  |  By RCM Admin  |  En News, Press Release

Interior Repatriation Initiative: 90-Day Update from Guadalajara

[Guadalajara, Jal. March 18, 2020] The Interior Repatriation Initiative (IRI), which the United States and Mexico resumed at the end of 2019, allows the United States to deport Mexican nationals to the Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla International Airport of Guadalajara in Western Mexico. The first 2019 repatriation flight of 132 Mexican nationals departed Tucson International […]

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Sabbatical Attorney
December 17, 2019  |  By RCM Admin  |  En News

Attorney On Sabbatical: Volunteering With The Rhizome Center for Migrants

Bethany joined our Mexico Project this December from the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project (the “Florence Project”) in Arizona, where she is the Managing Attorney in their Children’s Program. As many attorneys may not be aware of sabbatical programs offered at their organizations, we’ve asked Bethany to answer a few questions about how she […]

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Children Crossing
April 30, 2019  |  By RCM Admin  |  En News

American Children in Mexico: Young Lives Divided by the Border

[Guadalajara, Jal. April 30, 2019] Among the children we’re thinking of today as we advocate, promote, and celebrate children’s rights in Mexico, are the more than 600,000 American children whose lives cut across the U.S.-Mexico border. U.S. immigration laws continue to prevent undocumented parents from remaining in the United States with their minor, U.S.-born children. […]

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The Rhizome Center for Migrants

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In a world that seeks to erase your existence, you are not invisible to us. To all those who proudly assert their identity during #chicanofest, and who continue to fight for a place in this world, we see you and we are with you. Our favorite photo from yesterday's events with the binational community in Guadalajara is the photo of Senator Karina Ruíz with el rapero chicano Sonik 4:20, up and coming rapera Luna Fortuna—she blew us away!—and drug addiction counselor and founder of Guanatos G.D.L.S.U.R. and Chicano Fest, Roberto Hernández. Thank you for you vision, hard work, and love, Robert, and to the senadora del migrante for traveling to Guadalajara to spend #5demayo with us!@karina_migrante@chicanxs_sin_fronteras @matt_sedillo @caminantasred @fm4pasolibre @coincide.iteso @suerteverde11 @sonik420_oficial @lunafortunamx Galo Canote

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"We are not here because the government has a commitment to us. We are here because we need this for us."We are so grateful to have been invited to this electrifying convening of formerly incarcerated, immigration system-impacted, and prison reform activists. During the 3-day event organized by @theundergroundscholars and @incarcerationnations, actors from both the United States and Mexico convened in Mexico City to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the PESCER program, @cc_uacm's college-in-prison program. A prison that can convert itself into a classroom becomes a refuge—a place of resistance and imagination. The convening marked the need to rethink the modern prison system, and promote reentry service support in Mexico and the integration of deported people into higher education systems. Our hats off to Danny Murillo, Rick Zepeda, and Dr. Baz Dreisinger for your vision and love, and to all those who never lost hope.

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While in Guatemala, we met with deported veteran, Sergio Andrade, whose family arrived in the United States at the start of the Guatemalan Civil War. He later enlisted in the U.S. Army and honorably served from 1977-1980. Like hundreds of other immigrant veterans who put their lives on the line for the American people, the United States not only failed to naturalize him but later dishonorably deported him to the country his family fled. Cast away in 2002, he has struggled to survive—witnessing or directly experiencing armed violence dozens of times. Now in his late 60s, his health is declining and he is far away from the physical and emotional support of his surviving family members and any VA facility. His harrowing story of courage and endurance is preserved as part of the digital archive of @deportedveteransdiasporamural in Tijuana and was first told by roaming activist and brother in arms @nick_paz in 2022. After hearing Sergio's story in person, The Rhizome Center for Migrants is committed to ensuring he receives the benefits he earned as a veteran of the United States, and his safe passage back to his family and country.No #veteran should ever be exiled from the United States. Join the movement: defendourvets.com/ #hr4569

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The Rhizome Center for Migrants is an independent, secular 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our Mexico Project, based in Guadalajara, Jalisco, supports deported and returned migrants through legal aid and reintegration services.

 

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