Quixote Center works to influence United States policies that impact the people we work with. We advocate with Congress and the Administration to change US foreign policies that exacerbate extreme poverty and vulnerability in Haiti and Nicaragua. Extreme poverty, violence, and vulnerability lead families to make the heartbreaking decision to migrate, to the United States or elsewhere. We work to address these root causes when they have a US policy solution. We also advocate for immigration policies in the United States that promote the dignity of migrants, focusing on preserving the asylum system.
Our current priorities include:
- Ending illegal weapons trafficking to Latin America and the Caribbean, especially Haiti;
- Ending the use of economic sanctions when they impact the most vulnerable;
- Transforming global humanitarian assistance;
- Safeguarding the asylum system;
- Ending “border externalization” that pressures other countries to adopt policies conforming to US border strategies.
Quixote Center impacts policies through:
- Encouraging our supporters to send letters to Congress and the Administration;
- Scheduling in-person meetings with Members of Congress and the Administration;
- Working in coalition with allied organizations.
You can view a recent webinar on Weapons Trafficking to Haiti here.
Mexico’s detention network is human rights disaster - and U.S. policy is making it worse

At all times, and certainly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the governments of Mexico and the U.S. must protect the rights of migrants. In the current context of a global pandemic, both governments must halt enforcement actions and deportations, and release people from detention facilities where their lives are endangered by overcrowded and unsanitary conditions.
#FreeThemAll Week of Action, Day Five

We are on the second to last day of Detention Watch Networks’s #FreeThemAll National Week of Digital Action, March 30 – April 4, to demand the liberation of all people in immigration detention – please keep up the pressure!
Day 5 – Friday, April 3: Care not Cages: Public Health Department Accountability Day
Take Action: #FreeThemAll and End Deportation Flights

#FreeThemAll week of Action Continues today
Drawing connections between immigrant detention and mass incarceration.
#FreeThemAll Week of Action, Day 3: Congress

Day 3 – Wednesday, April 1: #DefundHate and #FreeThemAll
#FreeThemAll Week of Action, Day 2: Trans Day of Visibility

Day 2 – Tuesday, March 31: Let Our People Go/Trans Day of Visibility (From Detention Watch Network)
#FreeThemAll Week of Action: Monday, ICE Field Offices

This is the first day of a cyber-week of action to get people held in immigrant detention released, and to get Immigration and Customs Enforcement to suspend enforcement and removal operations. We have written several background articles on the campaign, and the dangers of incarceration for people at this time.
From Rikers Island to Adelanto #FreeThemAll
We are running out of time to save the lives of those incarcerated in the world's largest network of prisons, jails, and detention sites. There are 2 million people incarcerated in the United States - more than any other country on the planet. They are all at risk.
To Contain COVID-19, We Must Tear Down Some Walls
"Viruses know no borders and they don't care about your ethnicity or the color of your skin or how much money you have in the bank," Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization health emergencies program.
Incarceration and COVID-19
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InAlienableDaily Dispatch
March 9, 2020