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 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 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.
A new series in which we (will aspire to) offer a sampling of today’s headlines on immigration, race, and related stories.
August 24, 2018
“Truth isn’t truth”:
Perception vs. reality: Politicians inflate the number of immigrants and the people choose to believe them.
President Trump has nominated Kathy Kraninger to be the next director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Kraninger has very little experience for this post. Currently, she works for the Office of Management and Budget overseeing program planning and implementation for the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice. As a result, she has been a key player in coordinating immigration policy, especially the “zero tolerance” policy that led to thousands of children being separated from family members.
A new series in which we (will aspire to) offer a sampling of today’s headlines on immigration, race, and related stories.
August 23, 2018
I dreamed a dream in time gone by... :
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responds to immigration heckler – and doesn’t back down.
... Now life has killed the dream, I dreamed:
A new series in which we (will aspire to) offer a sampling of today’s headlines on immigration, race, and related stories.
August 22, 2018
The Communities:
Researchers from the Brookings Institution suggest that every American student be required to attend a citizenship ceremony before graduation.
Beginning today, August 21, people incarcerated in at least 17 states will take part in coordinated non-violent actions to demand changes in the conditions under which they are held. The dominant strategy will be work stoppage organized in protest of unpaid or minimally paid work done by people incarcerated throughout the system. German Lopez, writing for Vox, explains.
A new series in which we (will aspire to) offer a sampling of today’s headlines on immigration, race, and related stories.
August 21, 2018
Top Stories:
A new series in which we (will aspire to) offer a sampling of today’s headlines on immigration, race, and related stories.
An article in The Hill discusses the impact of Attorney General Session’s recent decisions to reopen 8,000 immigration cases, which had been administratively closed, on judicial independence.
A new series in which we (will aspire to) offer a sampling of today’s headlines on immigration, race, and related stories.
August 17, 2018:
More than 9,000 families apprehended at the border last month despite Trump’s attempted “deterrents.”
A new series in which we (will aspire to) offer a sampling of today’s headlines on immigration, race, and related stories.
August 16, 2018:
Americans donate frequent flier miles to migrant families separated under Trump's "zero-tolerance" policy.
A new series in which we (will aspire to) offer a sampling of today’s headlines on immigration, race, and related stories.
August 15, 2018:
Head of USCIS defends his decision to remove the phrase “nation of immigrants” from the agency’s mission statement, arguing that the agency exists to serve citizens, not immigrants.
A new series in which we (will aspire to) offer a sampling of today’s headlines on immigration, race, and related stories.
August 14, 2018:
U.S. citizen parents fear their 4-year-old adopted daughter may be deported after her immigration case is denied and visa set to expire.
The Trump administration is waging a war on immigrants with many fronts, including: Adopting "zero tolerance" policies at the border, expanding detention, seeking ways to limit legal immigration, making it harder for people to become permanent residents and citizens, and launching a massive review of people who have become naturalized citizens. On all fronts, Trump’s war is being waged using existing policy instruments and institutions. We must acknowledge this reality - as the entire system is deeply flawed.
