Border Action Network formed in 1999 and works with immigrant and border communities in southern Arizona to ensure that our rights are respected, our human dignity upheld and that our communities are healthy places to live. We are a membership-based organization that combines grassroots community organizing, leadership development, litigation and policy advocacy.

The current political climate attests to the urgency of our long-term goal: to build the voice and power of those who are impacted the most by border and immigration policies and to build a national movement that calls for the fulfillment of human rights in this country.

During our first three years the organization was run entirely by volunteers. Since then we have 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.