Mayor Gonzales travels to El Paso to deliver remarks, accept award on behalf of city
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Santa Fe, NM – The City of Santa Fe has been recognized for its commitment to welcoming immigrants and all people with a ‘Voice of the Voiceless’ Award from Annunciation House, an El Paso-based organization that supports immigrants and refugees along the US-Mexico border.
The award will be presented at a Saturday evening Solidarity Dinner in El Paso, where the mayor will deliver keynote remarks. The flyer for the event is attached.
Annunciation House Director Ruben Garcia said, “The decision by your city to continue to welcome and ensure the basic rights and protections of refugees and immigrants is constitutive to who we are as a nation and a people. For over 39 years, Annunciation House has accompanied refugees and immigrants here on the El Paso border and positions and postures toward immigrants such as that of the city of Santa Fe are to be recognized and affirmed.”
Mayor Gonzales said, “Especially as we face a political environment that rejects these values, finding solidarity matters, and we will only prevail in the fight to display a little humanity to the immigrants and refugees in our communities by working together.”
Annunciation House was founded in 1978 and works in service of a central mission:
“In a Gospel spirit of service and solidarity, we accompany the migrant, homeless, and economically vulnerable peoples of the border region through hospitality, advocacy, and education. We place ourselves among these poor so as to live our faith and transform our understanding of what constitutes more just relationships between peoples, countries, and economies.”
For more information visit: https://annunciationhouse.org
Copies of the mayor’s remarks available. The award comes with a modest honorarium that at the Mayor’s request will be donated to Somos Un Pueblo Unido.