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
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.
Read the Red Clamor statement February 2025 in English HERE y en Español AQUI.
Read the Red Clamor Panama statement February 2025 HERE y en Español AQUI.
Read January 21st, 2025 Joint Statement with our partners at the Franciscan Network on Migration here
Read November 22nd, 2024 statement from the https://redfranciscana.org/en/Franciscan Network on Migration's National Assembly in Mexico here.
Participants from our March 2025 trip to Panama hosted a webinar titled Stranded and Forgotten. You can listen to it HERE.
Participants from the March 2024 trip wrote the report: Danger in the Darién Gap: Human RIghts Abuses and the Need for Human Pathways to Safety to denounce US efforts to further externalize US border to Panama.
The CLAMOR Network (Red Clamor in Spanish) is the Latin American and Caribbean Ecclesial Network for Migration, Displacement, Refuge and Human Trafficking who work in partnership with the Franciscan Network for Migrants and the Quixote Center. Below is the statement they published in the aftermath of the January 3rd attacks in Venezuela:
Time is running out for the 350,000 Haitians living in the US under Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Even though violent gangs control 90% of Haiti’s capital and large parts of the central region, the Department of Homeland Security announced on the eve of Thanksgiving the termination of TPS status for Haitians, effective February 3rd, 2026.
As a result of policies in the US, Panama, a strategic migratory corridor in the Americas, is witnessing a rise in reverse migration. After arduous journeys north in search of safety or better opportunities, migrants are forced or choose to go back due to exhaustion or political obstacles. With the support from Quixote Center, the Franciscan Network for Migrants (RFM in Spanish) team in Panama is a key actor addressing this often-invisible phenomenon, offering humanitarian aid, shelter, and emotional support to those whose dreams were interrupted.
Trade justice lies at the core of a fair and just economic system. This summer Quixote Center published an article exposing how free trade agreements like NAFTA fueled migration out of Mexico. Trade policies not only impact migration but also outline the rules related to arms trafficking.
Who is allowed into the United States?
You can find Part 1: Who Are We Detaining and Deporting HERE.
Asylum Ban
If you’ve had a hard time keeping track of the policy developments and accompanying judicial stays related to immigration, you are not alone. This blog series is meant to provide an overview of the anti-immigrant policies enacted by the current administration, highlight data collected so far by respected organizations, provide a realistic sense of how this administration is likely to continue on immigration, and lift up areas of resistance and activism.
Despite the tone of emergency we see in the news about the number of people migrating to the United States, other countries in Latin America are receiving and resettling the vast majority of people migrating in our hemisphere.
The news is full of talk about trade agreements. For decades, US trade policies have been designed to benefit corporations while hurting workers in the United States and elsewhere. Will new tariffs and trade agreements make things better or worse? As of this writing, it is too soon to know.
The deportation agenda comes with a price tag--and a payout.
Since the current US administration took power in January, migration trends have shifted dramatically, resulting in a reverse flow southward. 85% of reverse flow migrants cite the new hostile US migration policies as the reason for their return, perceiving that migration to the north is no longer possible.
On May 30, 2025, the Supreme Court ruled that the administration could terminate the Biden-era humanitarian parole program known as CHNV, which allowed more than 500,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to enter the United States and remain temporarily for a period of two years.
