Report from the Tijuana Border - February 2023
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...
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Jan 10, 20235 min read
Report From La Casa de Paso at the Tijuana Border • January 2023
Another year has passed without any immigration reform. If anyone is still confused by the chaos at the border, look no further than...
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Jan 9, 20235 min read
Report from the Tijuana Border -December 2022
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...
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Nov 8, 20222 min read
November 6, 2022 Update
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...
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Oct 31, 20221 min read
A Typical Day, Part 2
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...
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Oct 31, 20222 min read
A Typical Day in the Life in Tijuana - Tuesday, Nov 1
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...
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Oct 28, 20221 min read
October 29, 2022 Update
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...
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Oct 25, 20221 min read
October 26, 2022 Update
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...
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Oct 25, 20222 min read
October 25, 2022 Update
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...
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Oct 17, 20221 min read
October 17, 2022 Update
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...
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Oct 16, 20221 min read
October 16, 2022 Update
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...
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Oct 14, 20221 min read
October 15, 2022 Update
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...
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Oct 9, 20221 min read
October 9, 2022 Update
Playas de Tijuana today, foggy in the morning, but warm. Javier and I arrived at Friendship Park about 9:30, met Rocky, and started...
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Oct 6, 20222 min read
October 6, 2022 Update
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...
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Sep 14, 20225 min read
Report from La Casa de Paso - September 2022
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...
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Aug 10, 20225 min read
Report from the Tijuana Border • August 2022
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...
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Jun 30, 20224 min read
Report From the Tijuana Border • July 2022
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...
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Mar 28, 20226 min read
S.O.S. FROM LA CASA DE PASO!
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...
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Mar 7, 20227 min read
Report from the Tijuana Border • March 2022
Sharon Franklin All the tents at El Chaparral are gone. The process of moving everyone out of El Chaparral was traumatizing for asylum...
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Jan 17, 20222 min read
La Casa de Paso needs your help!
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...
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