Timeline - CARECEN

Timeline

2014

In 2014, a surge of unaccompanied minor children from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico began arriving at the U.S.-Mexico...

2008

After years of struggle by parents in the Pico-Union area, CARECEN helped form a grass-roots coalition that pushed for new...

2006

CARECEN was central to the largest mobilization ever in the city of LA. More than 1 million people mobilized against...

2001

CARECEN led the response to the earthquake in El Salvador and called on the U.S. Government to provide TPS for...

1998

CARECEN raised over $100,000 of material aid for the victims of Hurricane Mitch and called for TPS to be granted...

1997

CARECEN was part of a national alliance that won the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NACARA). NACARA gives...

1996

CARECEN was one of the key organizations who mobilized to win back rights lost under the Illegal Immigration and...

1994

CARECEN was one of the key organizations that mobilized against Proposition 187, a ballot initiative that among other things, prohibited...

1992

CARECEN organized events to celebrate the signing of the peace accords that ended the twelve year civil war in El...

1985

Only two years after CARECEN was founded, it played a key role in the class action law suit known as...

1984

CARECEN and the Central American Refugee Committee (CRECEN) go on a 15-day hunger strike at La Placita Olvera Church to...

1983

The Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), then called the Central American Refugee Center, was founded by Salvadoran refugees who were...