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...

Today, trauma is on my mind. It is impossible to overstate the traumas that asylum seekers carry with them. The fact that the U.S....

The biggest thank you ever to Sarah Bereiter and Daniel Brown for creating this incredibly beautiful website for La Casa de Paso! If you...

It’s been an eventful week here, at La Casa, and at the border. Fundraising is ramping up, and several people have scheduled house...

The mom and two little girls who stayed with us in La Casa de Paso in Tijuana for the past three days crossed the border this afternoon...