I wish I had good, or at least hopeful, news to report. As of today, Dec. 29, I have none. It is heartbreaking at the border. No one is...

It’s been a rough month for asylum seekers waiting at the Tijuana border. More people in tents at El Chaparral are convinced it is unsafe...

I’ve been here in Tijuana for a month. It has been personally the most difficult time I’ve experienced here, with two more months to go....

I arrived back in Tijuana almost a week ago. The border situation is grimmer by the day, and the stories of so many desperate moms and...

The border in Tijuana is still chaotic and increasingly dangerous for those waiting there. You need look no further than El Chaparral, a...

I’ve been back in Eugene for a couple weeks. It’s nice to be back and see my family and friends, and it will be so nice to return to...

Sharon Franklin It's a mess in Tijuana, but that's nothing new. Earlier this week Javier said it was freezing cold with high winds and...

November 2020 Here is a asylum story with a bona fide happy ending—although there are challenges ahead. It involves a grandma, a woman...

Javier and I together started La Casa de Paso, an emergency house for women and children, in June 2019. He and I met at the border in...

Here’s what’s been happening at La Casa de Paso. I have been unable to return to Tijuana since late February due to COVID, but I intend...

A Report from the Tijuana Border Sharon Franklin For Javier, every day in Tijuana starts early, about 4 a.m. to be exact. It’s been part...

And still new asylum seekers arrive at the El Chaparral border in Tijuana daily, hoping to cross. Javier goes there several times a day,...

As many of you know, I made a super hard decision and cancelled my flight back to Tijuana on April 1. It was a responsible decision but...

A little update…. Tijuana has virtually been shut down for about a week now. For people seeking asylum, • No new numbers are being given...

Blog Entry – 23 March, 2020 I’ve put off writing an update on the border because everything was so up in the air and changing constantly....

It’s been awhile and today I want to catch you up on what’s been going on in Tijuana and at La Casa de Paso. As always, it’s mixed, and...

It’s almost the end of the year and for many of us it can’t come too soon. For me, it’s hard to hold both all the gratitude I feel for...

This week was jam packed as usual, with many families in the house for periods of time. The week got more interesting with Halloween and...

What an eye-opening, heart-wrenching, exhausting, beautiful week. At El Chaparral this morning there were close to twenty kids coloring...

Thursday, October 3 I arrived back in Tijuana on Tuesday, about two months since I was last here. It is always emotional for me in so...