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La Casa de Paso

Sep 1
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Sep 1
5 min

Report From La Casa de Paso at the Tijuana Border • September 2023

Tijuana escaped the worst of the hurricane, thankfully. While it blew effortlessly across the border from Baja into California, sadly...

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Aug 25
1 min

Report from La Casa de Paso at the Tijuana Border • August 2023

This month, instead of describing what happened at La Casa de Paso this past month, I have decided to share photos from La Casa over the...

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Jul 29
6 min

What’s Happening at La Casa de Paso at the Tijuana Border • July 2023

We’ve been back about three weeks from our week away. No surprise, it took exactly zero time back to feel like we’d never left, but it’s...

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May 30
3 min

Report from La Casa de Paso at the Tijuana Border • June 2023

I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea of kinship lately. Here are some recent examples. Last Sunday Lily and her daughter Paulina came...

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May 21
6 min

Report from La Casa de Paso at the Tijuana Border • May 2023

The past couple of weeks brought more new developments to the Tijuana border. Every day for the past couple of weeks, hundreds of single...

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May 21
5 min

Report from La Casa de Paso at the Tijuana Border – April 2023

This month I want to do a brief overview of La Casa de Paso. Since we opened this emergency house almost four years ago, more than 600...

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May 21
2 min

Report From La Casa de Paso at the Tijuana Border • March 2023

It’s cold and rainy, and the wind is blowing. Streets flood fast in this city, and huge potholes spell extra trouble for people trying to...

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Feb 13
5 min

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
5 min

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
5 min

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, 2022
2 min

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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Nov 1, 2022
1 min

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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Nov 1, 2022
2 min

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 29, 2022
1 min

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 26, 2022
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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, 2022
2 min

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, 2022
1 min

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, 2022
1 min

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 15, 2022
1 min

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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