Have you seen this? Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois paid tribute to Joaquin Luna on the floor of the United States Senate on Dec 6. Joaquin Luna was a bright high school student who killed himself in Mission Texas last month over fears about his undocumented immigration status. BNHR will be honoring Luna’s memory at [...]
Peter Malof, Public News Service – TX KATY, Texas – The Texas director of the nation’s largest Latino Republican organization abandoned his party this week. Lauro Garza remains a staunch conservative, but says he’s fed up with what he calls a hostile “Tea Party nativism” toward which the GOP has been tilting in recent [...]
Texas Public News Service EL PASO, Texas – Hundreds of border-community residents are expected to seek immigration reform commitments from three key congressmen this evening in El Paso. Illinois Representative Luis Gutierrez and California’s Joe Baca will join Silvestre Reyes of El Paso at the public forum, sponsored by the Border Network for Human Rights. [...]
(EL PASO, Texas) — Recognizing the deepening crisis caused by a broken immigration system, the Border Network for Human Rights (BNHR) has convened a dialogue on immigration and border policy with Representatives Silvestre Reyes and Luis Gutierrez and Joe Baca. On Monday, October 10, these lawmakers will hear the concerns, ideas, recommendations of border residents [...]
The Border Network for Human Rights, a founding member of RITA, released a report today on the challenges and successes of the Texas Can Do Better campaign. You can read and download it here: Lessons Learned During the 2011 Texas Can Do Better Campaign by the Border Network for Human Rights
USATODAY today released an in-depth report that challenges the myth of the dangerous, open border. As we all know, there is just no such thing. Not only has the border been totally militarized by President Obama, people who live along the border have been saying “we feel safe” for years. From the article: U.S. [...]
Activists Will March, Celebrate & Set Human Rights Priorities For Border Communities (EL PASO, Texas) — BNHR has been fighting for human rights on the border, particularly immigration reform, for 13 years. With the backdrop of President Obama’s renewed push for immigration reform here on Tuesday, more than 800 BNHR members will gather for a [...]