James Cordero, Co-Director of the Water Drop Program at Border Angels, joins us to talk about the reality migrants deal with as they cross the border and the humanitarian aid Border Angels offers them.

Border Angels promotes a culture of love through advocacy, education, by creating a social consciousness, and engaging in direct action to defend the rights of migrants and refugees. ​To learn more about Border Angels go to https://www.borderangels.org 

Cordero mentions CALMA, another group in the episode. CALMA’s mission is to aid laborers, asylum seekers, DACA recipients, and migrants, both newly arrived to the US and those at the US/Mexico border. To learn more click here.

To learn more about the border crisis and to see some of our coverage of it, check out the article’s below from El Tecolote.