It’s February 4. The last few months have been cold, windy, and rainy in Tijuana, at least by Mexico standards! The wet, cold weather...

Another year has passed without any immigration reform. If anyone is still confused by the chaos at the border, look no further than...

What a month! For Javier and me it’s full of the faces and voices of so many people we’ve met… Venezuelan teenagers with their accounts...

I've missed a couple days only because too much has happened to even keep track! So on Friday we had a birthday party for N, a young...

So while Javier picked up the man at the clinic and made copies of the skull masks to color, I did a sample one and did a few things...

Javier and I left the house to go work out at the park about 7:30, but then he got a text that a man from Panama needed to get money as...

Javier got a text early this morning from a woman we know, saying she and her three girls crossed! We wish them all good things in their...

Here is another thing I love about Javier. Yesterday he went over to the street across from the shelter where families are camped out, as...

Yesterday was quite a day. Javier brought three women and two little boys to La Casa de Paso. Two of the women and one boy are from...

The sun baked everyone spread out on the dirty pavement. The wind blew kids' coloring pages to where I wanted to use masking tape to tape...

Sunday at Playas de Tijuana Javier and I arrived at 9:30 and started cleaning up. My specialty apparently is trash. We found out that six...

Javier and I took coloring books and crayons to the kids living on the street across from one shelter. The amount of kids and the awful...

Playas de Tijuana today, foggy in the morning, but warm. Javier and I arrived at Friendship Park about 9:30, met Rocky, and started...

Day 1 Tijuana I arrived in San Diego early and Bonnie picked me up at the airport and drove me across. Oh my gosh was that nice, second...

Sharon Franklin La Casa de Paso has been a busy place this month! From Javier’s/La Casa’s vantage point a block from El Chaparral, he...

This month at the border was punctuated with new families arriving amid rumors regarding a new ID card to be issued to asylees to speed...

When you read this story, remember that it is one of many. What would you do? This family of 13 just arrived at the Tijuana border from...

Javier and I are committed to keeping La Casa de Paso open for at least six more months. I haven't had to ask for donations since we...

Sharon Franklin All the tents at El Chaparral are gone. The process of moving everyone out of El Chaparral was traumatizing for asylum...

I haven't asked for donations for a very, very long time, because donations always came in at a rate that I never had to worry—or even...