Refugee Detention Solidarity

We work with LGBTQ+ and vulnerable populations within the refugee community throughout their entire transition, pre, during and post detention processes in hopes that individuals can escape deathly situations and build powerful new movements within refugee communities that will fight against the US-funded pillars of injustice that are creating unlivable situations for millions of people. […]

1300+ Refugees Escape Detention Center As Mexican Government Violence Towards Refugees Escalates

The US/MX border at Tijuana is practically closed for migrants and refugees. The local political climate has turned aggressively against migrants from the last Central American caravans. Trump’s influence on the Mexican federal government is strongly felt. President Trump’s anti-immigrant, anti-refugee policies like the so-called ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy are keeping many migrants and refugees […]

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

Casa de Luz: LGBTQ Autonomy in Tijuana

Pull through and support one of the only refugee run lgbtq+ spaces in Tijuana right now. We can’t even begin to express how important and healing this space has been. It is also the only lgbtq house on the ground right now that is autonomous and not being run by non-profits. It is the only […]

Reflections on the Remain in Mexico Policy and its potentially fatal consequences for Refugees

On January 24th, the Trump administration rolled out a new anti-refugee plan known as the Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP), or more popularly known as the ‘Remain In Mexico’ Policy. So far MPP has only been implemented in Tijuana but many believe TJ is just testing ground for these draconian policies before expanding them throughout the […]

Viva La Resistencia! Contra Viento Y Marea

When the first “Migrant Caravan” reached Tijuana in the thousands they were housed in the Benito Juarez Stadium. After several days of heavy rains caused the stadium to flood it became too unsanitary and was deemed unlivable. Many people were forcefully removed by the government to El Barretal – an enclosed concrete concert venue 11 […]

Autonomous Refugee Warehouse in Tijuana Threatened With Raid, updates to follow

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 4th, 2018, 7 pm PST Contact: HecateSociety@protonmail.com At approximately 10:30 am PST, refugees at Benito Juarez, the only self-organized Carvana Migrante camp in Tijuana, were served an eviction notice at Contra Viento y Marea, where they have inhabited since the unannounced night raid at 3 am from their original encampment outside […]

Indigenous And Central American Refugees Lock-Down And Prevent Riot Police Raid At The Benito Juarez Warehouse Shelter

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 29th, 2018Contact: HecateSociety@protonmail.com Just after 3am on the morning of Saturday December 29, approximately 200 Mexican federal and municipal police in riot gear and armored vehicles, along with 5 grand coach buses, appeared outside of the warehouse shelter near the Benito Juarez Sports Stadium where hundreds of Indigenous and Central American refugees […]

Honduran Migrants And Refugees Suffer Terribly In Tijuana Jails

The jails in Tijuana, Mexico are literally hell on earth. Especially for Central Americans. But particularly for Hondurans. The jails I saw were filled with migrants, refugees, the mentally ill and the poor. Within those black sites people are terrorized by the Mexican police and every agent of the Mexican “justice” system. Sadism rules. The […]

Tijuana Exodus Update Through a Queer Lens

Trans folks stand at the very front of this movement. As of yesterday morning, the last three members of the 60+ trans asylum seeking contingent successfully presented to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The trans womxn caravana strategically moved from Tijuana to ports of entry further east weeks ago and now are just waiting […]