COMMUNITY MEMBERS HAVE ACTION DURING PRESIDENTIAL VISIT Bring Attention to Short-Sighted Border Enforcement Policies El Paso, TX –On the occasion of the President’s visit to Fort Bliss Tuesday, more than 100 community members will be protesting the President’s border policy. The Border Network for Human Rights wishes to release the following statement, attributable to the [...]
COUNTY COMMISSIONER VERONICA ESCOBAR TO RECEIVE HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD The Border Network for Human Rights’ Third Annual Award Dinner is Friday El Paso, TX – The Border Network for Human Rights, a 12-year-old community organizing group with about 4,000 members in El Paso and Southern New Mexico, will have its third annual Human Rights Award [...]
StoryCorps Historias is a project that records Latinos’ stories around the United States. The recordings are archived at the Library of Congress as cultural and historical documents and exerpts can be heard on National Public Radio and Latino USA. A StoryCorps team is in El Paso today and tomorrow, recording the life stories of Border [...]
Contact: Louie Gilot, Policy Director, Border Network for Human Rights, (915) 274-0541, lgilot@bnhr.org August 12, 2010 COMMUNITY MEMBERS PROTEST BORDER SECURITY CONFERENCE ‘Security Without Community is Not Security’ El Paso, TX –Fifty community members from El Paso and Southern New Mexico stood outside the Seventh Annual Border Security Conference at UTEP, protesting the event where [...]
You can read the media coverage of the Border Network for Human Rights press conferences about the border security poll at the following links: American Chronicle Blue Virginia Change.org Daily Kos El Diario de El Paso El Paso Times Immigration Impact KENS KTSM Latina Lista New America Media Reuters Texas Tribune Washington Independent The Woodrow [...]
PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release                            Contact:  Katherine Vargas (National), (202) 641-5198 August 10, 2010                                                                 Louie Gilot (Texas), (915) 274-0541 NEW POLL SHOWS BORDER RESIDENTS FEEL SAFE El Paso Group Orders First Opinion Poll of Border Residents on Safety El Paso, TX – The findings of the first independent public opinion [...]
PRESS ADVISORY For Planning Purposes Only                                     Contact: Katherine Vargas (National) Friday, August 6th, 2010                                                         (202) 641-5198 Louie Gilot (Texas) (915) 274-0541 **TELEPHONIC PRESS CONFERENCE TUESDAY 8/10 AT 1:30 P.M. ET/11:30 A.M. MT 1-800-895-1085, PASSWORD: 7BORDER** NEW INDEPENDENT POLL: BORDER RESIDENTS FEEL SAFE El Paso Group Orders First Opinion Poll of Border Residents on Safety [...]