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Immigration Policy Update: Dehumanization, Detainment & Deportation
In 2019, an anonymous Border Patrol agent told CBS News, “Two things hit you right off the bat, the moment you open or walk through these doors … you hear kids crying and simultaneously, you get hit with the smell of people that have been there for too long.” The conditions in these detention centers and the state of immigration enforcement have only worsened since then.
U.S. Immigration Policy Update: The Bans and Barriers to Entry
U.S. immigration policy is a mess. This has been true for some time, but current admissions policies have placed the ailing system on life support. The administration has taken an aggressive approach to curtailing legal immigration and existing humanitarian pathways while also stripping status from people who are already here through legal, protective pathways.
Trapped in Tapachula: The Human Cost of Migration Limbo
During the final days of Quixote Center’s trip to southern Mexico, we visited Tapachula, Chiapas, just 30 minutes from the Guatemalan border. Over the past several years, Tapachula has become a major immigration processing hub. Because the United States has all but halted processing of asylum and refugee applications, significant numbers of migrants are choosing to stay in Mexico, either permanently, or until they can enter the United States.
From Mexico: The Excluded (blog 2 of 3)
Quixote Center staff spent 5 days in southern Mexico a few weeks ago to see for ourselves how US border policies are impacting the rest of the Americas.
On our second day we traveled to Tenosique, in the State of Tabasco, located near the border with Guatemala. Tenosique is home to the La72 migrant shelter, a member of the Franciscan Network on Migration and long-term Quixote Center collaborators.
US Deportation of Elderly Cubans to Mexico Creates a Humanitarian Crisis
From May 27 to June 3, Quixote Center traveled to southern Mexico to meet with local partners and assess the human impact of the United States' increasingly aggressive immigration enforcement policies, including mass detention and deportation.
What we witnessed was a growing humanitarian crisis, one that is leaving thousands of vulnerable people stranded, homeless, and without support.
Food, Water and ICE
Imagine being so desperate that you stop eating.
That after everything, after the journey, the crossing, the detention, the waiting, and the violence, you look down at your tray of food crawling with maggots and think: No. Not anymore.
Fighting Cartels While Arming Them
The latest version of the US “war on drugs,” launched in February 2025, has worsened violence and undermined human rights. It now risks arming the very cartels it claims to defeat.
Spring Newsletter
Fifty years ago Bill Callahan and Dolly Pomerleau founded Quixote Center with a dream to be a progressive faith-based center for challenging injustice. Our founders were influenced by liberation theology and animated by a commitment to solidarity with the vulnerable and
marginalized, within the Catholic Church and in society. They dreamed the “impossible
dream” of a world more justly loving, armed with the faith that their love and persistence
could make impossible dreams come true.
Haitian Flag Day
In Haiti and the throughout the diaspora, May 18th is a day filled with music, dancing, parades, religious services, and cultural events. It’s Haitian flag day, a national holiday and day of celebration, but its significance is far deeper than a day off work and a time to party. Schools often hold ceremonies, and communities gather to celebrate Haitian heritage, identity, and pride.
Solidarity in Action: Caring for Migrants Across Borders
After visiting shelters and meal programs across Mexico, Guatemala, and Panama, one truth keeps surfacing: compassion doesn’t wait for permission, it acts.
In border communities, the scene repeats itself day after day. Families arrive weary from the journey, hungry, dehydrated, and carrying everything they own.
Between Borders: Jose's Story
Jose left Venezuela to save his livelihood and search for a more hopeful future.
A family farm that once sustained them no longer can, as the country's political and economic crises are making it harder to survive.
He crossed South and Central America, making his way north to seek asylum in San Diego. Now, he is in Panama, stranded between borders, with no clear way forward and no safe passage out.