So grateful tonight for our dedicated Al Otro Lado team in Tijuana. We may not have a fancy office. but it is not about the space, but rather the heart that people bring to it. Every week I am shocked by the number of volunteers who continue to show up, despite the fact that...
every day here is a lesson in the myriad of ways that the heart can break. But this place is also a lesson of resilience, where the people show us that it is still possible to pass through one thousand heartbreaks and for the human spirit to survive and persist...
This weekend we welcomed fifty volunteers who came to assist asylum seekers subject to Trump's deadly "Remain in Mexico" policy. We've constructed a highly imperfect safety net. This much we all know...
We are responding the best we can to a government-created crisis with limited resources at our disposal. We simply cannot represent each and every individual. But we can prepare the people to defend themselves in the hope that for some, it will be enough.
And sometimes it is. Today we learned an asylum seeker who came to our clinic just won her case. It's only one win, but it is a win for the people nonetheless. Today not even the shadow cast by government cruelty can dim the light we all feel when good people and justice prevail.
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