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. August 4, 2022] More than 4 million Mexican migrants have been deported from the United States since 2008. During the same period, a significant number of Mexican migrants returned, forcibly or voluntarily, to Mexico as a result of family obligations, unfavorable economic and labor market conditions in the United States, and stricter enforcement […]
[Guadalajara, Jal. August 13, 2020] The Rhizome Center for Migrants and a coalition of more than 220 national advocacy organizations, and more than 125 national, state, and local drug policy, criminal justice reform, and civil rights organizations signed a letter of support for the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act. In 2013, simple marijuana […]
[Guadalajara, Jal. May 25, 2020] The Rhizome Center for Migrants and 35 U.S. and Mexican organizations call on the Trump and Lopez Obrador administrations to urgently address the impact of ongoing deportations and expulsions of children, asylum seekers, and migrants during COVID-19. As organizations representing civil society in the region, we are alarmed by the […]
Binational Joint Statement Click here to view this statement in Spanish. As organizations representing civil society in the region, we object to and are alarmed by the offensive public health risk created by ongoing U.S. deportations and expulsions amid a global health crisis. We urgently call on the Trump and Lopez Obrador administrations to cease […]
Declaración conjunta binacional Haga clic aquí para ver esta declaración en inglés. Como organizaciones que representan a la sociedad civil en la región, nos alarma y nos oponemos al ofensivo riesgo de salud pública creado por las deportaciones y expulsiones de Estados Unidos que se están llevando a cabo en medio de la crisis de […]
[Guadalajara, Jal. April 21, 2019] The Rhizome Center for Migrants (www.rhizomecenter.org) is excited to announce Jorge Ramirez’s addition as Technology Strategist and newest member of the Advisor Council. Jorge is a Mexican media artist and technologist based in Guadalajara. Since 2004, Jorge has developed an intermedia body of work traversing architecture, art, sound, science, and […]
This piece was originally published in the Spanish-language online publication, Animal Político, on August 29, 2018. With permission from the author, we are providing a copy of the complete English version, below, which features our work in Guadalajara, Mexico. By: Savitri Arvey (@SavitriArvey) As Mexican president elect Andres Manuel López Obrador defines his policies in the […]
[Guadalajara, Jal. June 30, 2018] The Rhizome Center for Migrants (www.rhizomecenter.org) has partnered with Guanajuato-based Dream in México (http://dreaminmexico.org) to dispel immigration myths regarding legal reentry into the U.S. Dream in México is a Mexican nonprofit organization connecting immigrant youth with educational and employment opportunities in Mexico. “There is a lot of misinformation out there […]
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