Increase in rural crossings from Mexico by
undocumented immigrants, due to tighter checks at official crossing
points |
Increase in the use of emergency care by undocumented
immigrants after suffering injuries or trauma in their attempt to
cross into the U.S.. |
The San Diego-based NGO "Border
Angels" is providing water stations for undocumented
migrants crossing throug the desert in the Imperial Valley. San
Diego based, American Friends Services' Border Program
focuses on the defense of migrant human and civil rights, farm labor
rights, and the monitoring of federal Immigration and Naturalization
Service (INS) Border Patrol policies and practices, and other law
enforcement agencies. Casa YMCA del Menores Migrantes
in Tijuana provides shelter and counseling for Mexican migrant youth
that get deported back to Mexico. |
Growing incidence of poverty and slums (colonias populares) across
Greater Tijuana. Over 1/2 of all new growth in Tijuana is in squatter
communities |
Contributes to unhealthy living conditions that leads to substance
abuse, domestic violence, child abuse and neglect. |
This remains a very challenging problem but NGOs like Esperanza
and Los Niños are promoting more livable communities
through community empowerment programs including micro-credit availability
among under-served communities in Tijuana. Esperanza,
Project Mercy and several church based oranizations in San Diego are
assisting with the buildng of low cost housing and day care facilities.
The Border Arts Workshop is providing arts enrichment
programs for children and youth of the community of Maclovio Rojas
in Tijuana and has helped in the construction of a women's center.
Promocion y Docencias, A.C. is providing community
outreach programs in Southern Tijuana. |
Large numbers of two-parent working adults
and single family households working multiple jobs in order to make
ends meet in many under served communities of both San Diego and
Tijuana. |
Rising number of working poor in both San Diego
and Tijuana, particularly among workers and families of Mexican origin.
Increase in the number of latch key kids without meaningful after
school programs on both sides of the border. |
Family counseling to minimize the risks of child
abuse/neglect. After School programs such as those of the Boys
and Girls Clubs, YMCA, MAC Project, Casa Familiar go a long
way to addressing the needs of San Diego's migrant families. Locally,
the San Diego Living Wage Campaign is dedicated to
securing livable wages for the thousands of low-wage workers in the
San Diego regional economy. |
Poverty leads to greater susceptibility among poor to becoming
exploited victims of crime, prostitution, drug trafficking, human
trafficking, and the sex trade. |
The trafficking of humans, drugs and the prostitution are growing
binational concerns with transnational organized crime syndicates
exploiting the poor and disenfranchised from the United States,
Mexico and third countries. |
Support for abused women and children, particularly those that are
victims of domestic violence, prostitution and the sex trade. |
| Lack of affordable housing in San Diego for the
region's migrant working poor. |
Leads to increased overcrowding and a growing
number of migrants living in migrant worker camps. Also decreases
the disposable net income that migrants are able to remit back to
their communities of origin in Mexico. |
Encinitas based Las Casitas has been providing
more affordable adobe shelters for migrant worrkers and Carlsbad
based La Posada Casa Guadalupe has been providing
shelter to homeless migrant workers at their 50-bed facility. Carsbad
based Ecumenical Migrant Outreach Project has also
provided advocacy for migrant workers made homeless from the dismantling
of migrant worker camps. |
Growing incidence of Mexican undocumented inmates
in the California prison system |
Deported ex-offenders lead to increased incidence
of crime in Tijuana. Recidivism rate among these Mexican undocumented
ex-offenders is also over 80%. |
This issue is currently not being addressed by any
non profit in either San Diego or Tijuana. |