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. We are a nation built by migrants for migrants. 

The Quixote Center’s principal international partnership is with the Franciscan Network for Migrants (FNM). FNM 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 serve as the fiscal sponsor for the FNM within the United States, and coordinate advocacy efforts with their staff. We provide on-going financial support to FNM programs in Panama, a particularly strategic and dangerous migrant crossing point. We offer capacity-strengthening funding to FNM teams, so far supporting teams in Colombia, Brazil, and Mexico. 

Quixote Center and FNM organize Solidarity Trips approximately every six months 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. border policies impact the lives of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing their homelands to seek a new life, in the United States or elsewhere.

Find out more about our Solidarity Travel Program .

Partner and Joint Statements

Read the Red Clamor statement February 2025 in y en . 

Read the Red Clamor Panama statement February 2025  y en . 

Read January 21st, 2025 Joint Statement with our partners at the Franciscan Network on Migration  

Read November 22nd, 2024 statement from the Franciscan Network on Migration's National Assembly in Mexico .  

Resources

Participants from our March 2025 trip to Panama hosted a webinar titled Stranded and Forgotten. You can listen to it .

Participants from the March 2024 trip wrote the report:  to denounce US efforts to further externalize US border to Panama.  

  

 

Location of Shelters in the Franciscan Network on Migration

Daily Dispatch 10/18/18

Thu, 10/18/2018 - 1:52pm by jessica

A sampling of today’s headlines on immigration, race, and related stories.

October 18, 2018

 

Kidz Inc.

Arizona-based for-profit, VisionQuest National LTD, received funds from HHS to UACs in Philadelphia, but officials in this “sanctuary city” won’t allow kids to be incarcerated on their watch.

Daily Dispatch 10/12/18

Fri, 10/12/2018 - 10:24am by jessica

A sampling of today’s headlines on immigration, race, and related stories.

October 12, 2018

Top Story:

The gruesome story of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder and dismemberment inside a diplomatic facility will lucrative U.S.-Saudi arms deals because the reporter was an immigrant with permanent residence and not a US citizen.

Daily Dispatch 10/8/18

Mon, 10/08/2018 - 4:59pm by jessica

Dear Loyal Readers,

You’ve surely been wondering about the radio silence not emanating from the Quixote Center over the past couple of weeks.

Well, don’t worry.

We weren’t raptured, we were just switching web hosts.

Our site was down for a bit, but we’re back up and running now – so… time to get back to business.

 

A sampling of today’s headlines on immigration, race, and related stories.

October 8, 2018

The Courts:

Daily Dispatch 9/19/18

Wed, 09/19/2018 - 3:36pm by jessica

A sampling of today’s headlines on immigration, race, and related stories.

September 19, 2018

Déjà vu:

1,500 kids – AGAIN!  Out of the 11,254 unaccompanied migrant children that HHS has placed with sponsors in 2018, investigators reveal that HHS “could not determine with certainty the whereabouts of 1,488.” Similarly, HHS lost track of 1,457 of kids it placed in 2017.

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