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 […]

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 […]

Migrants wait in line for food distribution at the Matamoros camp March 19. Food was previously given out in a centralized tent but is now distributed at separate locations in the camp to prevent large gatherings. Ivan Flores for Foreign Policy

Regional Groups Call on IACHR to Respond to Systemic Human Rights Violations in the Hemisphere

[Guadalajara, Jal. July 21, 2020] Today The Rhizome Center for Migrants joined a regional coalition of 41 organizations in requesting a multi-country thematic hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The request calls on the Commission to protect human rights in the American hemisphere by addressing the wide-ranging impacts of recent U.S. migration policies […]

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 […]

Joint Statement: U.S. And Mexico Must Urgently Address Impact of Ongoing Deportations and Expulsions During COVID-19

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: Estados Unidos y México deben abordar de manera urgente el impacto de las deportaciones y expulsiones que se llevan a cabo durante el COVID-19

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 […]

Senor Juan

Population At Risk: Elderly Undocumented Mexican Workers

[Guadalajara, Jal. July 30, 2019] Each year, undocumented workers in the United States contribute billions to the U.S. Social Security system. However, when they retire, because of their undocumented status in the U.S. workforce, they will not have access to the federal public benefits of retired workers. Their inability to draw from their contributions, and the […]

Children Crossing

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. […]

Jorge Announcement

The Rhizome Center for Migrants Announces New Technology Strategist

[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 […]