{"id":926,"date":"2018-06-01T14:50:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T21:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/?p=926"},"modified":"2020-10-13T21:28:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T02:28:44","slug":"texas-based-organization-centralizes-efforts-in-mexico-in-support-of-deportees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/es\/2018\/06\/texas-based-organization-centralizes-efforts-in-mexico-in-support-of-deportees\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas-Based Organization Centralizes Efforts in Mexico in Support of Deportees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>[Guadalajara, Jal. June 1, 2018]<\/b> In response to the surge in deportations under the Trump Administration, as well as the lack of reintegration support for returnees in their home country, The Rhizome Center for Migrants (<a href=\"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/es\/\">www.rhizomecenter.org<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) has partnered with Mexico-based Centro Pastoral Migratoria (<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.migrante.com.mx\/guadalajara.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.migrante.com.mx\/guadalajara.html<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) to provide direct services to returning Mexicans, the single group most affected by deportations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The charitable mission of both organizations is to offer relief and protection to forcibly displaced and uprooted people. In Guadalajara, Jalisco, their joint efforts focus on strengthening and expanding post-deportation legal and reintegration services to at-risk communities in Mexico.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDespite the fact that more than 600 Mexicans are returned daily, efforts to reintegrate, and in some cases integrate, them back into society have fallen short,\u201d said Father Jose Juan Cervantes, Co-Coordinator of Centro Pastoral Migratorio, whose organization belongs to the network of Casas del Migrante Scalabrini migrant shelters across Mexico and Central America. In recent years, they have seen an influx of deportees. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Current projects of the partnership include the opening of a legal support center for deportees and returnees, the first of its kind south of the border and the only legal aid clinic in Mexico devoted entirely to the needs of returning migrants. The clinic provides advice and other direct services to at-risk and vulnerable persons with urgent matters involving U.S. law. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDeportation is a sudden, alarming event that most people don\u2019t plan for,\u201d said Tran Dang, founder of The Rhizome Center for Migrants. \u201cThrough the clinic\u2019s outreach efforts, the greater returned community also benefits from accurate and reliable immigration <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/es\/resources\/\">information<\/a><\/span> regarding the possibility of legal return and family unification in the United States.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the two organizations have concentrated their efforts in Guadalajara, their networks extend throughout Mexico and the United States. Their ability to organize on both sides of the border gives them an edge as they work to restore compassion and respect for family unity, as well as the rights of deportees.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Guadalajara, Jal. June 1, 2018] In response to the surge in deportations under the Trump Administration, as well as the lack of reintegration support for returnees in their home country, The Rhizome Center for Migrants (www.rhizomecenter.org) has partnered with Mexico-based Centro Pastoral Migratoria (http:\/\/www.migrante.com.mx\/guadalajara.html) to provide direct services to returning Mexicans, the single group most [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,32],"tags":[36,37,33,34],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-press-release","tag-family-unity","tag-immigration","tag-mexico","tag-returned-migrants"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rhizomecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Family-Wall.jpg?fit=5152%2C3435&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}