Dismantling Asylum: A Year into the Migrant Protection Protocols (AFSC)

Dismantling Asylum: A Year into the Migrant Protection Protocols (AFSC)
Dismantling Asylum: A Year into the Migrant Protection Protocols (AFSC)
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The U.S.-Mexico Border Program at AFSC advances human rights and self-determination of migrant communities through base-building, alliance-building, documentation and policy-impact. We support local community-based organizing campaigns, train and accompany community-based leadership to educate, advocate, mobilize, and organize constituents to secure just and humane immigration policies. Using a human rights framework and in collaboration with community partners, we advance policies affecting immigration and border issues and build alliances to protect migrant and nonmigrant rights. Our goal is to engage community partners and leaders to monitor and document instances of civil and human rights abuses by law enforcement agencies. The objective of documenting law enforcement activity is to change policies and practices that violate human rights, and change the public discourse away from militarization of border communities, towards just and humane immigration policies that benefit workers and their families.