San Diego is the largest land border crossing in the world and has been a highly active location for deportations, rights violations, and abuse by Customs Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The SDRRN was activated to respond to increased immigration enforcement activities within San Diego County and humanitarian issues arising at the border, including widespread family separation and unjust deportation of asylum seekers presenting at the Port-of-Entry.
To view the Core Partners, Legal Partners, and Participating Organizations, please click here.
We Need Your Support
Families are arriving in our community in desperate need of our help. They have traveled hundreds, if not thousands of miles to flee violence, suffering, and persecution in their homelands in search of a safer, better life.
Immigration authorities are releasing these families after being vetted by Homeland Security in San Diego and giving them the right to live in the U.S. while they await the outcome of their application for asylum. Learn more in our Newsroom.
Your Support is Vital to Running the Migrant Family Shelter
A migrant shelter was started in late October 2018 to provide meals, medical care, legal services, and travel aid to 200 individuals; nearly 50-60 families a day. Funds are needed for the shelter to maintain its daily operation and provide basic necessities, such as food, blankets and bedding, portable showers, baby/children needs, and toiletries. The funding will also help SDRRN provide free legal representation for these families and fund bond fees.
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Donate Needed Items
All shelter guests – babies, infants, children, and adults – discard their old clothes for health and hygiene reasons and are provided with new underwear, clean clothes, and shoes. Before they leave to reconnect with loved ones, asylum-seeking families are provided with additional clothes for what is often a multi-day bus ride.
You can donate these needed items to the locations below:
Good Samaritan Episcopal Church 4321 Eastgate Mall, San Diego 92121
Drop Off Hours
Monday-Friday 9:00am-3:00pm.
Our Lady of Guadalupe – Barrio Logan
1770 Kearny Ave, San Diego CA, 92113
Drop Off Hours
Monday- Friday 9am-4pm
Saturday & Sunday 9am-2pm
We have also set up an Amazon wishlist where you can donate requested items that will help families begin their journey in the United States.
In The News
Bankers Hill Migrant Shelter Population Dwindles Amid Hardline Federal Policy
July 12, 2019
Sharp Decline in Border Crossings Leads to Fewer Calls on Shelter
July 11, 2019
The effect of “Remain in Mexico”—Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP) is having on the number of asylum-seekers.
Click here to read the Times of San Diego storySan Diego Migrant Shelter Treats Families Coming Out of Custody
July 10, 2019
The shelter run by JFS screens families for communicable health conditions after leaving "inhumane conditions" at overcrowded detentions centers in Texas and Arizona.
Click here to read the KPBS story
A Dramatic Drop in Migrant Arrivals on the Border: What’s Happening?
July 10, 2019
Kate Clark, Senior Director of JFS Immigration Services, discusses the impact of the “remain in Mexico” program.
Click here to read the New York Times story
Más de 100 voluntarios en San Diego verifican rumores ante la incertidumbre por redadas
5 de julio de 2019
Organizaciones comunitarias piden mantener la calma y corroborar cualquier información que circule en redes sociales.
Haga clic aquí para leer el artículo de Union-Tribune
