Welcome to Borderquest!
Borderquest will function on university campuses as a grassroots organization that focuses on educating and advocating for justice for immigrants. Immigrants face difficult barriers when they are in need of healthcare. Under the current healthcare system, lawfully residing immigrants in the US must wait five years before becoming eligible to receive aid through federal programs like Medicaid.This leaves those people reliant on community health centers and hospital emergency rooms as their primary source of healthcare. However, this system is not sustainable because emergency medicine is not only more expensive for the individual, but also for the government. Borderquest focuses on three different forms of education and advocacy:
Campus action: where members will engage with other students in order to share information about immigration issues by means of social media and personal interaction
The St. Louis conference: where all members of individual Borderquest campus organizations are invited to join members from other schools in order to celebrate their continued efforts and to focus on the opportunities that social media creates - Social Media for Social Justice
The Borderquest Experience: where selected members of individual Borderquest organizations will travel south to Laredo, TX in order to take part in a six-day learning service program. Participants will engage with immigrants, hear their personal accounts of the journey, and get a first-hand feel for how the immigration system functions on the US/Mexico border.
Campus action: where members will engage with other students in order to share information about immigration issues by means of social media and personal interaction
The St. Louis conference: where all members of individual Borderquest campus organizations are invited to join members from other schools in order to celebrate their continued efforts and to focus on the opportunities that social media creates - Social Media for Social Justice
The Borderquest Experience: where selected members of individual Borderquest organizations will travel south to Laredo, TX in order to take part in a six-day learning service program. Participants will engage with immigrants, hear their personal accounts of the journey, and get a first-hand feel for how the immigration system functions on the US/Mexico border.
