Border Action Network
Border Action Network was formed in 1999. It works with immigrant and border communities in southern Arizona to ensure that their rights are respected and their human dignity is upheld, and that their communities are healthy places to live. BAN is a membership-based organization that combines grassroots community organizing, leadership development, litigation and policy advocacy.
During its first three years the organization was run entirely by volunteers. Since then it has expanded to four staff and more than 500 members. Through the years, Border Action Network has built relationships and launched campaigns that have resulted in the prosecution of border vigilantes, agreements with local police departments against enforcing immigration, training and engaging immigrant families in the political process and the struggle for comprehensive immigration reform, and developing protocols for border enforcement practices that uphold constitutional and human rights.
Project
The Border Action Network receives funding from the U.S. Human Rights Fund to support Rights on the Line: Human Rights and Border Policy Campaign. This campaign combines community organizing, communications strategies, alliance-building and policy advocacy, to call for local and national reforms in U.S. border policy and comprehensive immigration reform.
The project will advocate for a new Border Patrol training curriculum for local officials that educates them on the constitutional and human rights of migrants and border residents. It will also advocate for the creation of independent local community advisory boards and a national monitoring body that reviews complaints of rights violations and provides recommendations on upholding due process and human rights in border policy. BAN will work to implement these goals within the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector and at the federal level.
Contact Representative
Tucson, AZ 85702