National Borders Network
or
. . . TBD

A national faith-based network called to respond to the crisis along the US-Mexico border.

First campaign - No More Deaths - Memorial Day 2005 - Tucson & beyond

• faith-based human response to save lives on the border
• theological reflection
• responses to migrants back in home communities

Migrant Services

• emergency care
• food, clothing and shelter
• hospitality and refuge
• legal aide services
• employment brokering | worker rights

Migrant Rights

• through legislation lobbying - national, state and local
• monitoring and supporting law enforcement in the just exercise of their duties
• legal services

Migrant Information

• for religious leaders and churches
• for teachers
• for press
• for policy makers

decentralized network model, with initial hubs in

• Washington, DC - Border Working Group
• Rio Grande -
• El Paso - Maryknoll Border Team
• Tucson - No More Deaths movement
• Imperial County -
• San Diego - Border Matters network, Church Without Borders
• AFSC - nationally and locally
• Bay area - ICIR
• . . . and all others who wish to join in . . . welcome!

Judy Coode will run a list-serve - jCoode@Maryknoll.org

will offer web services - send materials to post to sre@BorderMatters.net

The product of many meetings and much work and prayer,
this National Border Network was formally begun out of the
Border Strategy meetings in Tucson, 27-29 Jan 2005
held at BorderLinks and St. Mark's Presbyterian Church
Flash | PDF - Participants list
You are encouraged to join this network! Invitation letter

Notes from small groups:

• Flash | PDF - Houses of Hospitality / Migrant Welcoming Centers
• Flash | PDF - Build a national network
• Flash | PDF - Reach the pews accross the country through personal stories of migrants
• Flash | PDF - Policy responses
• Flash | PDF - Retreat - Reflection - Theology of the Border