In this newsletter, please read about
1. Asylum Processing at the US-Mexico Border
2. ICE Air: Update on Removal Flight Trends
3. Migrants in Colombia: Between Government Absence and Criminal Control
4. At th Border: Recent Incidents at and around the US-Mexico Border
5. Honduras plans to build a 20,000-capacity ‘megaprison’ for gang members as part of a crackdown
6. Thousands of displaced residents in southern Mexico fear returning to their homes after violence
7. Danger in the Darién Gap: Human Rights Abuses and the Need for Humane Pathways to Safety
8. America Turned Against Migrant Detention Before. We Can Do It Again
9. Asylum claims are down over 40% in Mexico
10. Global Trends Report 2023
TAKE ACTION NOW
Here is what you can do to take action this week and act in solidarity with migrants and their families. (See details at the bottom of this newsletter.)
A) Act Now for welcoming, dignified and just immigration policies
B) Root Causes: Stop Deportation Flights to Haiti
C) Root Causes: Restore Asylum for LGBTQ+ Refugees in Danger
D) Think Globally. Act Locally: Help Migrants and Refugees in Cleveland
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1- Asylum Processing at the US-Mexico Border
Note: The “asylum ban” imposed by the Biden Administration in June 2024 does not apply to migrants going through the process of making credible fear appointments via the mobile app CBP One. The “ban” means that if Border Patrol catches a migrant between ports of entry [reported by Border Patrol at 3,100 per day shortly after the new rule went into effect], they are immediately expelled and denied any right to ask for asylum (like during Title 42).
Since January 2023, migrants seeking to request political asylum at the US southern border have been required to make an appointment with a Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officer. To do so they need a cell phone and adequate internet service because they have to download and use the CBP One app (although about 100 migrants per day—spread across the 2,000 mile border and 12 official border crossings—can walk up and request an appointment). CBP randomly allocates 70% of the daily requests (about 1,450) and gives the other 30% of appointments to those who have been on the waiting list the longest. But the appointments are not even distributed. About half the appointments are assigned to either the Tijuana or Matamoros crossings. At some border crossings, there are no CBP One appointments assigned. In some cities, migrants are waiting 5-8 months for appointments, facing risks of extortion, kidnapping, and other violence.
In May 2024, researchers from the Strauss Center for International Security and Law (based at University of Texas at Austin) conducted interviews with asylum seekers, Mexican government officials, and members of civil society organizations on both sides of the border. Here’s what they found at the border crossings:
Matamoros
402 CBP One appointments per day
2,500-3,000 migrants awaiting appointments.
staying in shelters, rented rooms, and abandoned houses.
Nationalities: Mexico, Venezuela, Haiti, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Russia, and countries in Africa.
Nuevo Progreso
0 CBP One appointments per day
5 walk-up appointments per day
125 people awaiting walk-up appointments
Staying in 50 tents near the boder
Nationalities: mostly from Russian speaking countries
Reynosa
217 CBP One appointments per day
3,300 people staying in shelters
Nationalities: Haiti, Central American countries, Venezuela, Mexico, Russia and China
Nuevo Laredo
57 CBP One appointments per day
50 people living in an encampment
Nationalities: Venezuela, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
Piedras Negras
57 CBP One appointments per day
300 migrants staying in shelters
Nationalities: Venezuela, with fewer numbers of people from Mexico, Colombia, Honduras, Ecuador, and Haiti.
Ciudad Acuña
0 CBP appointments per day
5 walk-up appointments per day
Nationalities: Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, and El Salvador.
Ciudad Juárez
205 CBP appointments per day
Texas National Guard in El Paso has placed multiple rows of concertina wire in popular crossing
Locations; there have been multiple confrontations between guardsmen and migrants.
Agua Prieta
0 CPB appointments per day
1 walk-up appointment per day
Asylum seekers maintain their own waitlist: 41 families on the list (totaling about 165 individual people), waiting 3-4 months, staying in shelters and renting rooms.
Nationalities: mostly from Mexico.
Nogales
110 CPB One appointments per day
4,000 people waiting
Nationalities: mostly from Mexico with smaller numbers from Venezuela, Honduras, Colombia,
Guatemala, Ecuador, and El Salvador.
San Luis Río Colorado
0 CPB One appointments per day
10 walk-ups per day
250 migrants are organized through a self-run waitlist system. About half are minors. Most stay in hotels or rented rooms.
Nationalities: mostly from Mexico.
Mexicali
85 CPB One appointments per day
3,000 migrants staying in shelters and rented rooms
1,400 on the current wait list organized by the shelters
Nationalities: Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Mexico, and Russian speaking countries.
Tijuana
400 CPB One appointments per day
Migrants staying in shelters and motels
Nationalities: Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Mexico, and Russian speaking countries. (Many crossing between ports-of-entry are from Venezuela, Colombia, China, Russia, and other extracontinental nationalities.)
Source
https://www.strausscenter.org/publications/asylum-processing-at-the-u-s-mexico-border-may-2024/
2- ICE Air: Update on Removal Flight Trends
The U.S. government’s COVID-19 public health emergency order expired on May 11, 2023 — this includes the Title 42 order that has expelled over 2.5 million migrants from the US-Mexico border. With the end of Title 42, the government started to ramp up Title 8 expedited removal deportations in June 2023. In June 2024, the Biden Administration imposed a new asylum ban.
Since the Biden Administration took office there have been:
A total of 25,810 ICE Air Flights
4,710 Removal Flights
ICE Air Flights
The number of observed removal flights to ten different countries in Latin America and the Caribbean continues. Over the last 12 months, there have been 7,847 ICE Air flights; 1,603 of those have been removal flights. With an estimated average of 100 passengers per flight, this means that over the past 12 months, as many as 160,300 people could have been returned to Latin America, the Caribbean and a small number to Africa by air by the U.S.
Removal Flights, Lateral Flights, Domestic Shuffles:
In June 2024, there were 627 ICE Air flights, utilizing 20 different planes operated by 6 different charter carriers (World Atlantic, GlobalX, Eastern, Gryphon (ATS), Eastern Express and OMNI); this is down 112 from May, driven by the drop of domestic shuffle flights and removal related flights.
Border Patrol encounters at the southern border were down by 10,987 (9%) from 128,884 to 117,906.
Lateral flights:
Lateral flights in June decreased from 43 in May to 19 in June. It is important to note that in the first 20 days of the month laterals averaged about 1.1 per weekday, but averaged only 0.5 per weekday over the last 10 days of the month. Eleven of the laterals originated in Yuma, 3 in both San Diego and Tuscon, and 2 in El Paso. The destination of 16 laterals was McAllen and 3 was Laredo.
Shuffle flights:
Shuffle flights of 301 decreased by 79 from May and were up 26 below the prior 6-month average.
Detention
People in detention Increased by 2,954 (8%) over the past 4 weeks to 38,525 on June 15.
Removal flights:
Removal flights decreased from 151 in May to 142 in June. The Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala (44), Honduras (29), and El Salvador (8) were destinations for 57% of all removal flights in May. Adding the 14 flights that originated in Mexico, that makes it 67% of all deportation flights. In June, the estimated number of people returned to Northern Triangle countries represented 30% of May encounters from those countries.
Countries:
Venezuela (flights were suspended all of February and did NOT resume in May, after flights paused following an announcement by the US that some sanctions would be reinstated if Venezuela did not agree to allow candidates from the Unitary Party to compete in this year’s elections.)
JAN = 4
FEB-JUN = 0 flights each month
Mexico
Flights continued under PRIM (Procedure for the Repatriation to the Interior of Mexico) Program
JAN = 1 (on January, 30 from San Antonio to Morelia, Mexico)
APR = 13 (under PRIM, with 1 every Tuesday and 2 every Thursday)
MAY = 18 (2 flights each Tuesday and Thursday)
JUNE = 14 (127 people were returned by plane)
Guatemala
ICE Air flights to Guatemala decreased by 3 to 44 in June from 47 in May.
JAN = 52
FEB = 58
MAR = 51
APR = 42
MAY= 47
JUNE = 44
Honduras
Flights to Honduras remained at 29 in June. Encounters of Hondurans increased by 256 from 10,200 to 10,459.
JAN = 37
FEB = 29
MAR = 27
APR = 29
MAY = 29
JUNE = 29
El Salvador
Flights to El Salvador decreased by 5 from May to June
JAN = 11
FEB = 12
MAR = 10
APR = 10
MAY = 13
JUNE = 8
Ecuador
Ice Air Flights to Ecuador decreased by 5 from May to June
JAN = 5
FEB = 4
MAR = 6
APR = 11
MAY = 17
JUNE = 12
Peru
JAN = 2
FEB = 3
MAR = 1 (the lowest since January 2023)
APR = 3
MAY = 3
JUNE = 4
Colombia
JAN = 6
FEB = 7
MAR = 12
APR = 9
MAY = 12
JUNE = 11
Dominican Republic:
Flights remained steady at 2 for the last 10 months.
Brazil:
Flights remained at 1 over the last 10 months.
Cuba:
Experienced the first return flight since December 2020 on April 24, 2023. Followed by 1 in each of the following months, including June 2024
Sources: Witness At the Border
3 - Migrants in Colombia: Between Government Absence and Criminal Control
Staff from the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) visited Colombia’s borders with Panama and Ecuador in late October and early November 2023, finding:
- Organized crime controls the migrant routes. "Violent criminal groups control the route through Colombia, from Ecuador's trochas to the Darién jungle, led by the Gulf Clan. Profits from migrants now rival those from cocaine and illicit mining." [1]
- The Colombian state is absent from border zones, failing to manage flows or protect people. "Despite efforts, governance vacuums are filled by armed groups, with little state presence or humanitarian aid."
- Challenges in integrating Venezuelan refugees persist. "While Colombia's response is generous, recent policies hinder documentation and services, especially for women and children."
- U.S. initiatives support integration but discourage migration, complicating policy coherence. "Mixed messages from Washington affect migration management and support."
- Resources are scarce for Colombia and neighboring nations, affecting migration management. "Humanitarian aid is insufficient amid competing global needs."
The report recommends establishing safe transit pathways with increased state presence and regional cooperation to improve integration and protect migrants' rights.
Source
https://www.wola.org/analysis/migrants-in-colombia-between-government-absence-and-criminal-control/
4 - At the Border: Recent Incidents at and around the US-Mexico Border
This is a space where we share current incidents from the US southern border to show that these issues that we write about do, in fact, immediately affect people at the border and in detention, and the horrible things many migrants have to experience while seeking refuge in the U.S.
May 31 - Texas National Guard personnel fired at least one pepper irritant projectile on migrants at the Rio Grande in El Paso. At the time, the migrants—who included families with children—were separated from soldiers by a mass of fencing and concertina wire and posed no apparent threat of death or injury, calling into question Texas’s use-of-force guidelines. Texas’s Department of Public Safety has not commented on the incident, caught on video from the Ciudad Juárez side. “An unidentified Venezuelan man said two pepper balls struck him in the neck and side after he crossed the Rio Grande to plead with the soldiers to let families come across the razor wire,” Border Report reported. A Venezuelan mother and father told a videographer that they had “placed a piece of cardboard between two shrubs on the Mexican side of the river to protect their 1-year-old daughter from stray shots.” A photographer said that a guardsman shot at him twice while he filmed from the Mexican side. Migrants in Ciudad Juárez told EFE that the Texas personnel fire at them even “while they sleep.” They displayed bruises and un-ruptured projectiles. “In addition to aggressions with weapons, said migrants on the river, are constant verbal aggressions and the use of laser beams to damage the eyes.”
June 7 - Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens tweeted that the agency has documented more than 300 deaths of migrants on U.S. soil since the 2024 fiscal year began in October, with the hot summer months just beginning.
June 7 - The Panamanian government’s human rights ombudsman filed a criminal complaint about more than 400 alleged cases of sexual violence perpetrated against migrants in the Darién Gap region. Before Panama’s Health Ministry suspended its permission to operate in March, Doctors Without Borders had been documenting these cases.
Source:
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5- Honduras plans to build a 20,000-capacity ‘megaprison’ for gang members as part of a crackdown
In Tegucigalpa, Honduras, President Xiomara Castro announced a new 20,000-capacity "megaprison" as part of a crackdown on “gang violence and efforts to reform the prison system.” Castro's plan, similar to President Nayib Bukele's in El Salvador, includes strengthening the military’s role in fighting organized crime and prosecuting drug traffickers as terrorists.
Honduran prisons, designed for 13,000 inmates, currently hold 19,500. Authorities plan to immediately construct and send dangerous gangsters to a 20,000-capacity prison near the rural province of Olancho. Another proposal is essentially a penal colony–an isolated 2,000-capacity prison on the Islas del Cisne archipelago (155 miles off the coast). Meanwhile, the Honduras Defense Council is seeking legal changes to detain suspected gang leaders without charges and conduct mass trials.
Critics argue these measures, while reducing homicides by 20% in early 2024, mirror Bukele’s tactics that limit civil liberties and may not address Honduras's entrenched gang power and corruption. However, Bukele’s success in El Salvador has garnered regional support for similar approaches.
Castro's megaprison ambitions mirror those of President Nayib Bukele in neighboring El Salvador and reflect a hard-line stance on security, which has both supporters and critics.
Source
6- Thousands of displaced residents in southern Mexico fear returning to their homes after violence
Battles between rival drug cartels have hit towns in Chiapas State along the border with Guatemala. Over the first weekend of June, over 4,000 residents had to flee the town of Tila. The government set up makeshift encampments but quickly urged the residents to return.
Julio César Gómez, a displaced resident, said, "They tell us to return but who can guarantee that we will be safe, that there won’t be problems?" Armed gangs burned homes, including those of Gómez's relatives. He, like many, is considering relocating to another state for safety and work.
Criminal gangs and political interests, including a group linked to drug trafficking called "Autonomos," were behind the violence. President López Obrador downplayed the incident, attributing it to local land disputes, despite growing violence in Chiapas from battles between rival drug cartels. This region, crucial for smuggling routes, has a history of conflict, including the uprising of the Zapatista political movement in 1994 and the 1997 Acteal massacre.
Source
7- Danger in the Darién Gap: Human rights abuses and the need for human pathways to safety
In recent years, the treacherous journey through the Darién Gap, spanning the Colombia-Panama border, has become a crucial route for hundreds of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers from around the world. This perilous path has caused severe challenges and human rights abuses for those seeking refuge and better opportunities across borders. In 2023 alone, over 520,000 individuals traversed the Darién Gap. As of May 2024, over 139,000 people have crossed the Darién Gap, with top nationalities from Venezuela (64%), Ecuador (7%), Haiti (6%), Colombia (6%), and China (6%). Among them, 32,911 children have crossed, with four children born in Panama’s Darien jungle.
These migrants and asylum seekers risk their lives amid harsh conditions and widespread abuses by criminal factions, particularly sexual violence, with minimal protection or humanitarian aid. The lack of safe and legal routes from South American countries to Mexico and Central America forces migrants and asylum seekers into remote and dangerous territories, as regional governments implement policies restricting freedom of movement and asylum access. This situation has led to a surge in crossings through the hazardous Darién jungle, exposing border crossers to severe environmental conditions and horrific abuses, including rampant sexual violence, and bolstering organized crime in the region. Panamanian government officials, including officers of the U.S.-funded National Border Service (Senafront), have themselves carried out abuses against migrants and asylum seekers with impunity.
The situation underscores the failure of national policies and governance across the hemisphere and the urgent need for a rights-based response to protect migrants and asylum seekers. Governments in the Americas must adopt immigration policies that respect human rights, recognize and address push factors, and ensure access to territory for humanitarian protection. Strict visa requirements and militarized border controls should not be used to block asylum seekers from reaching countries where they seek protection. Instead of preventing forced migration, these deterrence policies push individuals towards perilous routes like the Darién Gap, leaving them vulnerable to organized gangs, criminal groups, and corrupt government forces. Migrants and asylum seekers, whether escaping human rights abuses, environmental disasters, or poverty, have a right to safe and dignified pathways.
source
https://quixote.org/files/danger_in_the_darien_gap_.pdf
8- America Turned Against Migration Detention Before. We Can Do It Again.
Since its inception, migrant detention has been an affront to basic ideals of justice and compassion. It is so by design: when the government first introduced federal immigration detention in 1891, it designated detention facilities as spaces where the Constitution did not reign. The detention centers exist on the U.S. map, but the “entrants” within them are presumed to be held outside the nation. Since they are “not here,” those detained are not guaranteed basic constitutional protections—even when subjected to the law and force of the state.
The 1891 immigration detention law, which came to be known as the “entry fiction,” continues to dictate conditions for asylum seekers and migrants stopped at the border to this day. Abuse and dehumanization have occurred no matter when, how, or why detention was being used— they are intrinsic to the system. Between the end of the 19th century and the mid-1950s, detention was conceived as a means of enforcing the nation’s exclusionary laws—those migrants the U.S. considered undesirable, such as Chinese laborers, and those deemed to be “idiots,” “insane,” or likely to become a public charge. Physical abuse and suicide in immigrant detention was common.
In 1954, government officials decided that there were more compassionate and effective ways to deal with the migrants who were coming to America than caging them. The vast majority of new arrivals could be released on conditional “parole,” the term used for pretrial release in immigration cases, while their cases were being reviewed. Detention, officials held, was to be reserved for migrants who were deemed likely to abscond or who posed a threat to national security or public safety. But that changed less than 30 years later with the arrival of the Mariel Boatlift which carried 124,000 Cubans sent to the shores of Florida by their government. After that, the Reagan Administration went full force in reinstituting immigrant detention. Besides the ethics and legality of it, immigrant detention is costly; the U.S. government spends more than $3 billion on incarcerating migrants each year.
Detention is not an effective deterrent. We see that with the numbers of migrants still coming to our borders. And keeping them behind bars is not necessary to ensure they comply with immigration court proceedings. About 88% of migrants paroled into the community with their family and friends attend their court hearings, up to 98% when they have legal representation.
In her new book In the Shadow of Liberty, Mexican historian Ana Raquel Minian argues that migrant detention is costly, inhumane, and pointless.
Source
https://time.com/6983188/america-migrant-detention-history-essay/
9 – Asylum Claims Are Down Over 40% in Mexico
Asylum claims have decreased by 41.9% in Mexico in 2024. Even with the falling numbers, migrants complain that the decrease is due to the legal obstacles in the process at the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance (COMAR). Between January and May, there were 26,576 fewer applications than the 63,436 registered during the same period in 2023.
“The Comar offices, the National Migration Institute and the National Guard, are not issuing documents for migrants, humanitarian visas are being granted in dribs and drabs, it is very complicated, you have to get a lawyer, the Comar is using the law to harm and not to help,” argued Jose Gildardo Galdames, president of the Migration and Human Rights Lawyers Association. COMAR is receiving fewer people but is also increasing the number of obstacles for the migrants. Immigration restrictions have increased in Mexico and the US after President Joe Biden implemented an executive order in June to limit asylum and speed up deportations.
Source:
10 – UN Refugee Agency Global Trends Report 2023
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) released its 2023 Global Trends report on refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people worldwide. At the end of 2023, 117.3 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations and events seriously disturbing public order.
68.3 million internally displaced people (IDPs)
31.6 million refugees under UNHCR’s mandate
6.9 million asylum seekers
6 million Palestine refugees under UNRWA’s mandate
5.8 million other people in need of international protection
Hosting the largest refugee populations (including other people in need): the Islamic Republic of Iran (3.8 million), Türkiye (3.3 million), Colombia (2.9 million), Germany (2.6 million) and Pakistan (2 million).
Low and middle income countries hosted 75% of the world’s refugees and other people in need of international protection. 21% of the total were provided asylum from the Least Developed Countries. 69% were hosted by neighboring countries.
Relative to their national populations, these countries hosted the largest number of refugees and other people in need of international protection:
Aruba: 1 in 5
Lebanon: 1 in 6
Montenegro: 1 in 9
Curacao: 1 in 13
Jordan: 1 in 16
POLITICAL ASYLUM
Over half of all new individual asylum applications globally were received in just five countries. There were 3.6 million new claims. The US was the world’s largest recipient of new individual applications.
United States of America: 1.2 million
Germany: 329,100
Egypt: 183,100
Spain: 163,200
Canada: 146,800
Most new individual asylum applications were by nationals of Venezuela (314,200), Colombia (209,900), Syria (201,000), Sudan (194,900) and Afghanistan (169,600).
Globally, the United States of America reported the largest number of pending applications, 2.6 million, which was 45 per cent more than at the end of the previous year (1.8 million).
SOLUTIONS
6.1 million displaced people returned to their areas or countries of origin in 2023, including 5.1 million internally displaced people.
158,700 refugees were resettled in 2023, according to government statistics. The UNHCR submitted 155,500 refugees to States for resettlement.
32,200 stateless people had their nationality confirmed or acquired citizenship during 2023.
Country
Mexico
Country of asylum
Refugees – 124,800
Asylum Seekers – 257,400
Internally displaced people – 262,400
Guatemala
Country of Origin
Refugees – 34,000
Asylum Seekers – 176,000
Country of Asylum
Refugees – 1,000
Asylum Seekers – 2,100
El Salvador
Country of Origin
Refugees – 34,000
Asylum Seekers – 133,000
Country of Asylum
Refugees – 100
Asylum Seekers – 300
Honduras
Country of Origin
Refugees – 84,400
Asylum Seekers – 216,900
Country of Asylum
Refugees – 200
Asylum Seekers – 100
Nicaragua
Country of Origin
Refugees – 25,500
Asylum Seekers – 308,000
Country of Asylum
Refugees – 300
Asylum Seekers – 100
Costa Rica
Country of Origin
Refugees – 200
Asylum Seekers – 1,700
Country of Asylum
Refugees – 23,400
Asylum Seekers – 193,700
Panama
Country of Origin
Refugees – 200
Asylum Seekers – 1,900
Country of Asylum
Refugees – 2,700
Asylum Seekers – 8,400
Colombia
Country of Origin
Refugees – 115,500
Asylum Seekers – 301,800
Country of Asylum
Refugees – 1,400
Asylum Seekers – 23,800
Source:
UNHCR https://www.unhcr.org/global-trends
TAKE ACTION NOW
Now that you are up to date on the issues at and around the southern border of the U.S., here is what you can do to take action this week in solidarity with migrants and their families.
(A) Act Now for welcoming, dignified, and just immigration policies
The U.S. immigration system is causing unnecessary harm and suffering.
It doesn't have to be this way. We can demand our lawmakers create a just and equitable approach to immigration that ensures all people have access to a humane pathway to citizenship.
TAKE ACTION
Click here to tell Congress to create a welcoming and accessible system that allows people to come to the U.S., build new lives, and be part of our communities.
(B) Root Causes: Stop Deportation Flights to Haiti
On June 28, 2024, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced the extension and redesignation of Haiti for TPS for 18 months, from Aug. 4, 2024, through Feb. 3, 2026. That is good news. But not all Haitian migrants will qualify, and many are currently in removal (deportation) proceedings.
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) denounces the Biden administration’s continued deportations of asylum seekers to Haiti, a country which the administration itself has acknowledged to be unsafe and unstable.
TAKE ACTION
Click here to tell President Biden to halt all deportation flights and grant protected status to ensure no Haitian nationals are removed to a country in turmoil. You can read a number of policy proposals to help stabilize conditions in Haiti and protect those fleeing the violence here.
(C) Restore Asylum for LGBTQ+ Refugees in Mortal Danger
With the new asylum ban, the White House is forcing queer and trans refugees to wait in countries where their lives are in danger or be returned to their persecutors.
TAKE ACTION
Click here to call on President Biden to restore asylum for LGBTQ refugees in mortal danger—and all refugees fleeing persecution and torture.
(D) Think Globally. Act Locally: Help Migrants and Refugees in Cleveland
Refugee Resource Center operates in the basement of St. Colman’s Parish (2027 W 65th St) and opens up on Saturdays from 9-12 for new arrivals to come get necessities that are not provided by other assistance. To serve the 45 families who come to the center each week, there is a great need for diapers, feminine napkins, toilet paper, laundry detergent, shampoo, body soap, deodorant, dish soap and general household cleaner. Pots and pans also needed.
TAKE ACTION
To volunteer or to organize a collection of needed items, please contact Kelly kabon@ccdocle.org and she will help you arrange drop off at the site.
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