Right now, the Trump Administration is making good on their campaign promises to attack migrant communities. 

Trump made xenophobia a day one priority, including removing restrictions on raid locations, stopping asylum, attempting to roll back birthright citizenship, and a series of publicized raids designed to instill maximal fear on people throughout the United States – and throughout Mexico and Central America. 

We are not going to abandon one single person to this reckless and hateful onslaught.

In Mexico, frontline organizations for deportees and refugees are bracing for a surge in requests for their services now that Trump is in office. Government infrastructure is not robust enough to meet this upswing in service needs, so the immediate needs fall to migrant shelters run by civil society and religious organizations. 

If you can, please make a donation to our emergency fund today.

We have partnered with established, reputable migrant shelters and legal aid organizations to ensure these funds reach those in need. These frontline organizations will use the donations to buy food, medical supplies, mattresses, pay essential bills, and sustain advocacy efforts. They’re going to need every ounce of our support.

Casa Tochan (meaning “our home” in Nahuatl) is a nonprofit organization run by civil society, offering shelter, support, and services for migrants and refugees in Mexico City. 

CAFEMIN (House for Sheltering, Education, and Empowerment of Migrant and Refugee Women) is a nonprofit based in Mexico City, led by Catholic nuns dedicated to supporting migrant and refugee women. 

Voces Mesoamericanas is a nonprofit organization in San Cristobal de las Casas, leading emergency efforts to support migrants in Chiapas.

We know that while our immediate focus is on the relief funds for these shelters, we must also continue the struggle to reshape the narrative and policies within the United States and the region. We must provide an alternative to the fear mongering, zero sum approach to immigration that has largely defined the approach of both political parties in the United States, to the detriment of the wellbeing of all of us. 

Please join Global Exchange next week for an Immigrant Justice webcast on Wednesday, February 5, 2025, at 5:30 pm PST/6:30 pm MST/7:30 pm CST/8:30 pm EST.  Learn about:

  • current federal immigration law and proposed legislation at state and federal levels
  • immigrants as part of local economies and contributors to the tax base
  • statistics on crimes against immigrant communities and crimes by immigrants
  • historical rights violations against immigrant communities and practical resources to assist
  • immigrant communities and protect human rights.

Please register in advance.

It’s up to us to defend our communities. Thank you for taking action. 

 

Yesterday the internet flooded with horrific images of border patrol agents on horseback violently capturing Haitian migrants who were trying to re-enter a migrant camp in Texas, on the banks of the Rio Grande, after they had crossed back into Mexico in order to get food.  Border patrol agents using lariats to whip and detain, were recorded yelling “This is why your country’s shit.” 

This is our taxpayer dollars at work. But we don’t want to pay for inhumane and racist deportation policies. It has got to change.

Global Exchange joins our allies at the Haiti Action Committee in denouncing the inhumane and racist deportation of Haitian refugees from the US-Mexico border, where thousands of people are living in terrible, even deadly, conditions, and are being systematically deported by the Biden Administration. This is a crime.

Contact the White House Comment line at: (202) 456-1111.

United States’ policies have helped create the failed economic and political conditions in Haiti that are forcing tens of thousands to flee. Haiti’s descent into terrifying chaos began after the U.S. assisted a 2004 coup that ousted democratically elected  president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A disastrous post-coup occupation by United Nations forces undermined the economy and was even linked to the rapid spread of cholera and a deadly epidemic.

Now, the United States government, which bears much underlying responsibility for Haiti’s crisis, is returning planeload after planeload of asylum seekers — without even a hearing.

Haiti, recently hit by a major earthquake, does not have the capacity to absorb large numbers of returnees, yet the Biden Administration continues to deport thousands of people without regard to due process or consideration of the dangers that they may face upon return.

We urge you to act. Call the White House today and demand an end to the deportations. White House Comment line: (202) 456-1111.