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Dec 31, 20216 min read
Report From the Tijuana Border • January 2022
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...
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Nov 8, 20214 min read
Report from the Tijuana Border • November 2021
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...
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Aug 24, 20215 min read
Report from La Casa de Paso at the Tijuana Border • August 24, 2021
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....
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Aug 4, 20215 min read
Report from the Tijuana Border • August 2021
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...
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Jul 11, 20214 min read
Report from the Tijuana Border • July 2021
The border in Tijuana is still chaotic and increasingly dangerous for those waiting there. You need look no further than El Chaparral, a...
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Jun 15, 20216 min read
Report for the Tijuana Border June 2021
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...
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Feb 9, 20214 min read
Report from the Tijuana Border • January 2021
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...
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Nov 20, 20206 min read
Una Familia
November 2020 Here is a asylum story with a bona fide happy ending—although there are challenges ahead. It involves a grandma, a woman...
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Oct 10, 20208 min read
Report from La Casa de Paso at the Tijuana Border • October 2020
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...
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Sep 21, 20205 min read
Report from La Casa de Paso in Tijuana as of September 18, 2020
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...
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Aug 4, 20204 min read
A Day in the Life – July 28, 2020
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...
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Jun 15, 20206 min read
La Casa Update • June 15, 2020
And still new asylum seekers arrive at the El Chaparral border in Tijuana daily, hoping to cross. Javier goes there several times a day,...
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Apr 24, 20204 min read
Report from the Tijuana Border (as of April 22)
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...
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Apr 9, 20202 min read
Saturday, April 4, 2020
A little update…. Tijuana has virtually been shut down for about a week now. For people seeking asylum, • No new numbers are being given...
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Mar 23, 20204 min read
Blog Entry – 23 March, 2020
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....
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Jan 15, 20205 min read
Wednesday, Jan 15, 2020
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...
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Dec 14, 20192 min read
December 2019
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...
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Nov 2, 20192 min read
Saturday, Nov. 2
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...
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Oct 14, 20194 min read
Week 2 at the Border
What an eye-opening, heart-wrenching, exhausting, beautiful week. At El Chaparral this morning there were close to twenty kids coloring...
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Oct 3, 20193 min read
Tijuana Week 1: Re-entry and Peanut Butter Pancakes
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...
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