Support Border Line Crisis Center in Tijuana

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Border Line Crisis Center, which provides crucial emergency shelter and services to asylum seekers and migrants in Tijuana, needs your support!

Our organization needs help covering the basic expenses of our shelter and drop-in center operations, which are made up of shelter repairs, food costs, utilities, and coordinator stipends. This fundraiser page is provisional and temporary - reaching our goal will enable us to keep operations going for about six months as we rush to establish connections with funders and grantmakers. We hope to be able to receive tax-deductible donations soon.

About Border Line Crisis Center

In December 2021 alone, our emergency shelter hosted 215 people of 5 different nationalities. To hundreds more, we've provided access to a kitchen and food, internet, references to nearby legal and medical services, diapers and baby food, blankets, tents, essential medicine, and much more. Of these 215, 87 were women and 77 children.

Our community resource center and current shelter location center, located just steps from the San Ysidro port of entry, provides shelter, food and kitchen access, blankets, dozens of asylum seekers, refugees, houseless people and deportees every day, with particular attention to the needs of women and children arriving to Tijuana with the goal of seeking asylum in the U.S. or Mexico.

With the prolongation of Title 42, it’s as necessary as ever to attend to the needs of the thousands of migrants waiting to seek asylum in the United States.

Our shelter often finds itself at three times it’s operating capacity, despite our best efforts to place people in long-term shelters or en route to their next stop on their migratory journey quickly. Our meager facilities (which are supposed to be offices) host around 50-80 each night. Every shelter in Tijuana is packed to the brim, and BLCC focuses on sheltering those who are just arriving at the border and those in particularly vulnerable situations.

The situation at the border and in Tijuana continues to shift chaotically, affecting tens of thousands. However, grassroots projects like ours can shift their operations quickly to respond to these changing needs and are vital to creating structural change at the border. But for local projects like ours, connecting to funding sources can be difficult. To keep our doors open as we seek more stable funding sources, we need your support - please share our fundraiser and pages with your friends and contacts!

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Border Line Crisis Center es una organización que se dedica a trabajar con población migrante en tránsito y personas deportadas, brindándoles albergue temporal, atención psicológica y asesoría legal. Nuestro equipo es formado por personas activistas reconocidas por su trabajo con población migrante y deportada.

Nuestra organización necesita ayuda para cubrir los gastos básicos de las operaciones de nuestro albergue y centro de recursos, que se componen principalmente de reparaciones del espacio, costos de alimentos, servicios públicos y remuneración del personal. Alcanzar nuestro objetivo nos permitirá mantener las operaciones durante el siguiente año.

Solo en diciembre de 2021, el albergue de Border Line Crisis Center acogió a 215 personas de 5 nacionalidades diferentes, proporcionando no solo un lugar para dormir, sino también acceso a una cocina y comida, internet, referencias a servicios legales y médicos cercanos, pañales y comida para bebés, mantas, tiendas de campaña. , medicina básica, y mucho más. De estos 215, 87 eran mujeres y 77 niños.

Nuestro centro de recursos comunitarios y actual centro de ubicación de refugios, ubicado a solo unos pasos del puerto de entrada de San Ysidro, brinda refugio, comida y acceso a la cocina, mantas, a decenas de solicitantes de asilo, refugiados, personas sin hogar y deportados todos los días, con especial atención a la necesidades de mujeres y niños que llegan a Tijuana con el objetivo de buscar asilo en los Estados Unidos o México.

Con la prórroga del Título 42, es más necesario que nunca atender las necesidades de los miles de migrantes que esperan solicitar asilo en los Estados Unidos.

La situación en la frontera y en Tijuana continúa cambiando caóticamente, afectando a decenas de miles. Sin embargo, los proyectos autónomos como el nuestro pueden ajustar sus operaciones rápidamente para responder a estas necesidades cambiantes.