Recording of Newtown Action Alliance virtual event
Newtown Action Alliance Lunch & Lobby on the ARMAS Act
March 2nd, 2026 at 12:00pm & 8:00pm EST
Watch the recording of this virtual event HERE
Quixote Center recognizes migration as a fundamental human right under international law. In the United States, migrants strengthen our economy, enrich our culture, and strengthen our social fabric.
Quixote Center’s principal international partnership is with the Red Franciscana para Migrantes (RFM - Franciscan Network for Migrants). RFM connects Franciscan-run shelters and other humanitarian assistance programs for migrants who are making the dangerous trek through Mexico, Central America, and South America. We support RFM by
- Serving as the fiscal sponsor for RFM within the United States and coordinating advocacy efforts with their staff.
- Providing on-going financial support to RFM programs in Panama, a particularly strategic and difficult migrant crossing point.
- Offering capacity-strengthening funding to RFM teams, so far supporting teams in Colombia, Brazil, and Mexico.
Quixote Center and RFM organize Solidarity Trips since 2022 as part of our advocacy and education mission, bringing U.S. based migrant justice activists and other professionals to Southern Mexico and Panama to see firsthand how the U.S. immigration impact the lives of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing their homelands to seek a new life, in the United States or elsewhere.
View our Between Borders video series HERE.
Find out more about our Solidarity Travel Program HERE.
Partners
Partners
RFM - Red Franciscana para Migrantes (Franciscan Network for Migrants)
The Franciscan Network for Migrants (RFM) is a network of individuals and service centers across the Americas that, inspired by Franciscan spirituality, reach out to migrants to support, promote, protect, and defend their rights in their respective countries of origin, transit, and destination.
Location of Shelters in the Franciscan Network on Migration
Location of Shelters in the Franciscan Network on Migration
Reports from Solidarity Trips
Participants from our March 2025 trip to Panama hosted a webinar titled Stranded and Forgotten. You can listen to it HERE.
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.
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.
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.
From the Gallery: Witnessing a Rare Victory for Haitians in Congress
by Claudette David, Quixote Center Board Member
On April 16, 2026, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1689 to extend protected status for Haitians and it did not happen quietly.
It started with a discharge petition, H. Res. 965, led by Representative Ayanna Pressley (MA-7). What followed was a succession of floor votes that included officially discharging the petition and a bill passage back to back. That alone is rare. That kind of moment does not come often.
Between Borders: Erick's Story
Erick first left Guatemala as a teenager in 2004, after being threatened by gangs and fearing for his future. He made the journey to the United States to stay with his siblings and try to build a life.
His journey was not easy. He has been kidnapped, robbed, and mistreated. He has been deported several times, but cannot safely remain in his home country.
Today, he is staying at La 72 Hogar-Refugio para Personas Migrantes (one of our partners in Tenosique, Tabasco, Mexico)