We don’t need hyper-militarization of our border. We need direct investment into our communities that are still struggling to receive street lights, clean, running water, and are facing the existential threat of climate change. Our communities deserve to be able to access education, nutrition and healthcare without fear. If President Biden seeks to be the public servant that people need, he must take the time to sit down with underserved communities to hear where they stand.
Read moreBiden's Proposed Border Deal Dismantles Community Trust
Brownsville, TX -- When then-candidate Joe Biden was on the campaign trail, he promised a better tomorrow for immigration policy. He promised to not build another foot of border wall. He broke that promise after being elected in July, 2021, and broke that promise again with current border wall construction, waiving 26 laws he didn’t have to waive, in order to get his Biden Border Wall fast-tracked. And now, at President Biden’s behest, congress is presenting a supplemental funding package that will not only fund ongoing wars, but demands immigration trade-offs that seek to shut down humanitarian asylum, fund more prisons and police for undocu-communities and people on the move, (with over $20 billion allocated for border militarization alone), all to a shocking $118 billion dollars billed to taxpayers.
Read more“Voces Unidas RGV Condemns President Biden’s Border Wall Waivers”
Broken promises: When President Biden was re-elected, his administration quietly continued building border barriers in the Rio Grande Valley. Courtesy Photo.
Rio Grande Valley — October 4, 2023 — Voces Unidas RGV and Rio Grande Valley (RGV) communities have opened our arms, our home and our hearts to refugees, asylum seekers and people on the move for decades. Our work is centered in the interconnection of community and the space it occupies by being in the right relationship with the land and all beings along our migratory corridor. This means we not only care about the outcomes of migrating people, but the integrity of our soils and waters, and the animals and native plants that support our fragile ecosystems.
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