Help Migrant Famililes
Since October 26, immigration authorities have been vetting families seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border and releasing them in San Diego without resources or transportation.
Even with heightened enforcement at the border in late-November, asylum-seeking families continue to be released every day in San Diego, and we need your help to continue meeting their urgent needs.
These families are fleeing violence, suffering, and persecution in their home countries. They have endured many hardships on a long and dangerous journey to the United States. Like many of us, they have come here by whatever means possible to give their children a better life.
Desperate and in need of help, these families are arriving at a Migrant Shelter in San Diego run by the San Diego Rapid Response Network (SDRRN) , a coalition of human rights and service organizations working for the protection of immigrants.
Upon arrival at the shelter, the SDRRN and its partners quickly respond to the most pressing needs of these vulnerable children and families by providing meals, a hot shower, medical care, and legal services. Most families have children ranging in age from three months to 10 years old. These children often need formula and diapers, and toys to add joy to what is a very difficult experience.
The SDRRN and its partners are committed to responding to the needs of these vulnerable families. Your support will be the welcoming hand these families so desperately need.
Once families' immediate, basic needs are met, the SDRRN coordinates travel and provides limited financial assistance to help them reunite with loved ones in other U.S. cities – often a multi-day bus trip across the country. Staff also ensure that these newcomers receive detailed information about their rights as asylum seekers - including when they must report to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and appear in court in their destination cities.
From October 26 to late December, the SDRRN has sheltered more than 3,200 asylum seekers. Every day, as many as 40 families are arriving at the shelter after being cleared by the Department of Homeland Security to enter the United States. Your support will give these vulnerable families the resources and compassionate support they need at this critical point of their journey to find freedom, safety, and a better life.
About San Diego Rapid Response Network :
As a coalition of human rights and service organizations, attorneys, and community leaders, the San Diego Rapid Response Network stands ready to provide a humanitarian response, aiding immigrants and their families in the San Diego border region.
Core Partners: ACLU - ACLU San Diego and Imperial Counties; JFS - Jewish Family Service of San Diego;
SEIU – Local 221 ; SDOP – San Diego Organizing Project
As a core partner and fiscal agent for the San Diego Rapid Response Network, Jewish Family Service of San Diego manages the San Diego Rapid Response Network Fund to support the coalition's work. 100% of your donation goes to the SDRRN. Jewish Family Service is a 501(C)3 and all donations go through the PayPal Giving Fund. Donations are tax-deductible.


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Even with heightened enforcement at the border in late-November, asylum-seeking families continue to be released every day in San Diego, and we need your help to continue meeting their urgent needs.
These families are fleeing violence, suffering, and persecution in their home countries. They have endured many hardships on a long and dangerous journey to the United States. Like many of us, they have come here by whatever means possible to give their children a better life.
Desperate and in need of help, these families are arriving at a Migrant Shelter in San Diego run by the San Diego Rapid Response Network (SDRRN) , a coalition of human rights and service organizations working for the protection of immigrants.
Upon arrival at the shelter, the SDRRN and its partners quickly respond to the most pressing needs of these vulnerable children and families by providing meals, a hot shower, medical care, and legal services. Most families have children ranging in age from three months to 10 years old. These children often need formula and diapers, and toys to add joy to what is a very difficult experience.
The SDRRN and its partners are committed to responding to the needs of these vulnerable families. Your support will be the welcoming hand these families so desperately need.
Once families' immediate, basic needs are met, the SDRRN coordinates travel and provides limited financial assistance to help them reunite with loved ones in other U.S. cities – often a multi-day bus trip across the country. Staff also ensure that these newcomers receive detailed information about their rights as asylum seekers - including when they must report to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and appear in court in their destination cities.
From October 26 to late December, the SDRRN has sheltered more than 3,200 asylum seekers. Every day, as many as 40 families are arriving at the shelter after being cleared by the Department of Homeland Security to enter the United States. Your support will give these vulnerable families the resources and compassionate support they need at this critical point of their journey to find freedom, safety, and a better life.
About San Diego Rapid Response Network :
As a coalition of human rights and service organizations, attorneys, and community leaders, the San Diego Rapid Response Network stands ready to provide a humanitarian response, aiding immigrants and their families in the San Diego border region.
Core Partners: ACLU - ACLU San Diego and Imperial Counties; JFS - Jewish Family Service of San Diego;
SEIU – Local 221 ; SDOP – San Diego Organizing Project
As a core partner and fiscal agent for the San Diego Rapid Response Network, Jewish Family Service of San Diego manages the San Diego Rapid Response Network Fund to support the coalition's work. 100% of your donation goes to the SDRRN. Jewish Family Service is a 501(C)3 and all donations go through the PayPal Giving Fund. Donations are tax-deductible.

Another exciting time for the shelter! Governor Gavin Newsom visited San Diego to underscore his support for emergency and long-term funding for SDRRN’s migrant shelter and services. Then , San Diego’s Assembly delegation delivered! The California Assembly voted unanimously to support, serve, help and protect asylum-seeking families in our region throughout 2019.
We are deeply grateful for this show of bipartisan, statewide solidarity for our border region and its unique responsibilities. We look forward to San Diego’s own Senate President pro Tempore Toni Atkins speeding approval of the funding through the Senate and sending it to the Governor’s desk for signature.
In the meantime, plans are underway to convert an old family courthouse downtown to a suitable family shelter. To keep asylum-seeking families from becoming homeless, we give them a safe place to stay for a night or two while arrangements are made for travel to their sponsors’ homes across the nation. Much work needs to be done to convert the courthouse building into secure sleeping quarters. We also need a licensed kitchen and cafeteria, hygiene stations, a medical office, a play area for child care and storage space for donated clothing, diapers and toiletries.
SDRRN still needs ongoing donations to meet the needs of our guests, keep the shelter running, and prepare for future shelter operations.
By the Numbers:
Last week, SDRRN received 376 asylum seekers at our shelter and assisted them with travel to their final destinations. That brings our total number of asylum seekers served to 5,900. The SDRRN Hotline received 46 calls.
Never underestimate the importance of this work. One volunteer recently rushed a two-month-old migrant infant and her parents to the emergency room of a local hospital. The baby girl was suffering from the respiratory illness RSV and bronchiolitis, a lung virus. She was admitted to the pediatric ICU, where she was treated for three days. Upon her release back to the shelter, her family was able to continue on their journey.
This is life-saving, as well as life-changing, work.
Great article to share - KPBS recently visited our shelter and met a family who was dropped off in San Diego and eventually made their way to the shelter.
She said, "I have help (now). It's a blessing of God."
Read the article here; https://www.kpbs.org/news/2019/feb/14/asylum-seekers-find-shelter-san-diego-after-releas/
Thank you again for continuing to share our campaign and supporting our work. We couldn’t do it without you.
We are deeply grateful for this show of bipartisan, statewide solidarity for our border region and its unique responsibilities. We look forward to San Diego’s own Senate President pro Tempore Toni Atkins speeding approval of the funding through the Senate and sending it to the Governor’s desk for signature.
In the meantime, plans are underway to convert an old family courthouse downtown to a suitable family shelter. To keep asylum-seeking families from becoming homeless, we give them a safe place to stay for a night or two while arrangements are made for travel to their sponsors’ homes across the nation. Much work needs to be done to convert the courthouse building into secure sleeping quarters. We also need a licensed kitchen and cafeteria, hygiene stations, a medical office, a play area for child care and storage space for donated clothing, diapers and toiletries.
SDRRN still needs ongoing donations to meet the needs of our guests, keep the shelter running, and prepare for future shelter operations.
By the Numbers:
Last week, SDRRN received 376 asylum seekers at our shelter and assisted them with travel to their final destinations. That brings our total number of asylum seekers served to 5,900. The SDRRN Hotline received 46 calls.
Never underestimate the importance of this work. One volunteer recently rushed a two-month-old migrant infant and her parents to the emergency room of a local hospital. The baby girl was suffering from the respiratory illness RSV and bronchiolitis, a lung virus. She was admitted to the pediatric ICU, where she was treated for three days. Upon her release back to the shelter, her family was able to continue on their journey.
This is life-saving, as well as life-changing, work.
Great article to share - KPBS recently visited our shelter and met a family who was dropped off in San Diego and eventually made their way to the shelter.
She said, "I have help (now). It's a blessing of God."
Read the article here; https://www.kpbs.org/news/2019/feb/14/asylum-seekers-find-shelter-san-diego-after-releas/
Thank you again for continuing to share our campaign and supporting our work. We couldn’t do it without you.
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