https://latino.cornell.edu/news/border-angels-leader-visit-campus-speak-downtown
Border Angels is a nonprofit volunteer organization advocating for migrants through education, advocacy and outreach. Their activities include establishing water drops in the desert; giving food and hygiene products to migrant day laborers in San Diego; providing access to pro-bono immigration legal consultations and educating about the myths of immigration.
“He is passionate about this issue and has converted that passion into concrete actions that have a deep impact on people’s lives,” said Mary Jo Dudley, director of the Cornell Farmworker Program and a faculty member in the Department of Development Sociology, who is helping to organize the visit as part of a Cornell class, “Migration in the Americas,” for which she facilitates student engagement with immigrant farmworkers.
Morones, born in San Diego to Mexican parents, founded Border Angels in 1986 to prevent migrant deaths on the U.S.-Mexico border. He has been featured in major media organizations including NBC, CNN, CBS, NPR, BBC and Don Francisco’s “Sabado Gigante.”
