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Refugee Solidarity Call to Action: Seeking Translators, Editors and Keyboard Warriors

Posted on April 24, 2019 by hecatesociety

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A small piece of a very long story of the January 2019 LGBTQ+ Honduras->TJ refugee caravan. PLEASE DONATE what you can to Casa de Luz and these beautiful warriors in resistance 🙌 (Link in Bio on how to donate) . “Eventually we reached Tepic, where we did not have any other choice but to ride the freight train (“La Bestia”), and escape. Little by little, many of our people returned and joined us in Mexicali and we arrived in Tijuana as a Caravan in March of 2019. There were police at the scene immediately upon arriving on the train in Mexicali and they took us to the shelter nicknamed “the yellow castle”. The way to get there is completely hidden, well away from the public eye and across a repulsive canal of completely contaminated sewage water. We think that taking us to places like that is a strategy of the authorities so that people don’t see us...This place was like an abandoned house, the people in charge were weird...it was filled with police and the food that they gave us had been expired for weeks. There we found ourselves with other folks from the LGBTQ+ community with whom we had walked from Mexico’s southern border. There we grouped together once again, staying the night and the next day we were able to get a bus to Tijuana. At the “Rumorosa” military checkpoint they harassed us and threatened to detain us. Those that came with the caravan were seperated from everyone else who were passing through the checkpoint; the soldiers searched all of our belongings and accused some of us of human trafficking...We arrived to Tijuana sick and starving. We were very afraid because in Mexicali we were told that Tijuana had become the most dangerous city in the world, and in the vulnerable condition in which we came; the only thing we wanted was to rest but we couldn’t because we did not even have a space to shower. Along the way many people helped us, and in Tijuana a person decided to open the doors of their abandoned house to us, and from the very beginning, we called it Casa de Luz.” . Full Story: casadeluztj.org #Tijuana #Refugees #CaravanaMigrante #LGBTQ #Blacklivesmatter #Nativelivesmatter #vivalaresistencia

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