Read it Here! Statement of Solidarity: Our commitment to stand together against the violent, systemic and racist destruction of Black lives Updates on issues in last month’s newsletter: Investigations of human rights abuses and violence against those detained by ICE in the Bristol County House of Correction; Progress on passing the Work and Family Mobility Act;Ongoing needs in …
Category Archives: Witness and humanitarian action on the border
REFLECTIONS ON WITNESSING AT THE AIRPORT: What if This Were a Train to Auschwitz?
They come in shackles. They hold their shackled wrists up to the bus window and blow kisses. We hold hearts and shout, “Lo queremos” (We love you) and “No estan solos” (You are not alone).But are they alone? Even the one who manages to open the slot at the back of the bus and poke …
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!We are here
We are here. We have witnessed. We have prepped and served. We have crossed to the tent camps. We have hugged. We have witnessed shackled migrants already boarded on buses at the airport. We chanted to them and held banners and hearts for them to see. We have cried. We have witnessed in the Tent …
Ways to Get Involved/Organizations to Support for Justice on the Border
The delegation of the Western MA Jewish Activists for Immigration Justice who traveled to the Brownsville/Matamoros border for a week in February 2020 have seen and felt very directly the hardship faced bythe migrants stuck in the tent encampment in Matamoros, as well as the amazing organizations and individuals providing much needed care every day. …
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Members of the Jewish Activists for Immigration Justice Delegation to the Border Share Their Biggest Takeaways from our Nine Days on the Border
Eyewitnesses from Jewish Activists for Immigration Justice delegation to the US/Mexico border share their deepest takeaway AND a list of public reportbacks in Western Massachusetts.
Reflections on the Witness Action at Brownsville Airport
By Annique Boomsma To see up close our brothers and sisters from Central America being deported to countries they fled makes it impossible to EVER look away. At the airport yesterday where Trail Boss buses drove up with people in chains, 5 point chains we were told, we witnessed the horror of what our government …
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“It Made a Difference for This One”
A few times when I’ve been witnessing this week at the spot where people come off the bridge from Mexico, I’ve wondered if our actions were making a difference—especially when we’ve discovered and participating in so many opportunities to roll up your sleeves and get involved directly with helping the refugees. Haven’t the people of …
Serving Dinner at Matamoros
By Susie Zeiger For the past two evenings most of us have been serving food prepared by World Central Kitchen to approximately a thousand asylum seekers who line up and wait patiently to be served. I was told that there have been fewer people waiting recently because it’s been so cold in the evening. The …
Humanity Is Here
In times where so many of us struggle against becoming numb from the onslaught of depressing news headlines, we have found hope and courage here at the border, from listening to the dreams of the migrants themselves, witnessing their perseverance and fortitude in putting up with untenable situations, and from the many people and organizations …
Our First Day
By Betty Lynne Wolfson Please take a moment to read a bit about our first day’s experience, here at The Border. Every person, parents and their children, here in their encampment on the Border, were so warm, open, lovingly kind, and full of faith. I spoke with a woman at the Medical Tent, this was only …