Annie

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 […]

USC Event

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 […]

Deported Americans

U.S. Citizens in Mexico: Displaced Without Protection

[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 […]

Veterans Workshop

Deported Veterans in the Interior of Mexico Receive Legal Aid, Many for the First Time

[Guadalajara, Jal. August 15, 2021] In early July, the Biden Administration announced it is formalizing a new process to allow deported veterans to return to the country legally. In anticipation of the President’s new initiative, The Rhizome Center for Migrants hosted a citizenship and benefits workshop this Sunday, in collaboration with Public Counsel, Immigrant Defenders Law […]

Immigrants

Over 170 Organizations Offer Blueprint to Undo Damage Wrought by Trump, Transform America’s Immigration System

[Guadalajara, Jal. August 18, 2020] Today The Rhizome Center for Migrants joined over 170 U.S. leading immigration and advocacy organizations in releasing the 2021 Immigration Action Plan, laying out a blueprint for the next administration to restore human dignity to a system weaponized by the Trump administration, reinforce core American values, and power the economic […]

COVID-19

U.S. and Mexico Must Urgently Address Impact of Deportations and Expulsions During COVID-19

[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 […]

Guadalajara

Summer Program Offering for California, Texas, and Illinois Law Students

[Guadalajara, Jal. April 5, 2019]  The Rhizome Center for Migrants (www.rhizomecenter.org) invites law students to study migration in Guadalajara, Mexico, this August 9-16, 2019, and is excited to announce that our successful alternative immigration law program has now expanded to include students at California and Illinois schools. Guadalajara is Mexico’s second largest city and home […]

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Application Process for 2019 Winter Program Now Open

[Guadalajara, Jal. October 15, 2018] The Rhizome Center for Migrants (www.rhizomecenter.org) will now begin accepting applications for its 2019 Winter Educational Program. The program will take place January 4-10, 2019, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, where law students will have ample opportunities to hear from migrants, asylum seekers and deportees, as well as migration experts, government officials […]

Guadalajara

RCM Welcomes Law Students to Guadalajara

[Guadalajara, Jal. September 24, 2018] This winter, The Rhizome Center for Migrants (www.rhizomecenter.org) will host Texas law students in Guadalajara, Mexico. Guadalajara is Mexico’s second largest city and home to many of the images we associate with Mexican culture. Mariachi, tequila, the Jarabe Tapatio (“Mexican hat dance”), and Mexican rodeo all have their roots here. […]

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Return to the U.S. After Deportation or Removal

[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 […]