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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
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 […]
[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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