What people are saying about the Central American refugees is wrong.

In my time working with the Central American refugees and Asylum Seekers of the Caravan in Tijuana, I have come across many false arguments against helping these people. Some arguments can easily debunked and can be dismissed as a stereotyped argument filled with prejudiced statements, but some points forced me to go back into history to prove as false. …

What my first hand experience in refugee aid taught me.

In the past few weeks thousands of refugees from Central America (mostly Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala) are in route and have arrived to Tijuana. One of their goals is to gain entry into the United States for a better life. When one of the first large groups of refugees and asylum seekers arrived in Tijuana, they were met with massive protests against their existence in Tijuana. Appalled at the protests, last month I decided to do something to help aid the refugees and asylum seekers. I started a fundraiser…

They are not Mexicans or South Americans.

The misinformation and way people have been talking about the Caravan baffles me. On Twitter, I am constantly reading about people’s opinions on “Mexicans (or even South Americans) being gassed like Jews”. This is extremely troubling to me as someone who is half Mexican and half Jewish. Even good meaning people who are wanting to help these refugees, keep referring to them as Mexicans or South Americans. They are neither of these groups of people. When I confronted someone on Twitter that Mexicans aren’t being gassed in Tijuana — they are refugees from…

In the past two weeks thousands of refugees from Central America arrived in Tijuana. These people, mostly from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala fled from violence, corruption, and poverty. While the cities of Northern Mexico are no stranger to caravans of asylum seekers, there has never been this big of a crisis. An estimated 3,000 refugees and asylum seekers entered Tijuana at the time of my arrival into the city on November 21st, 2018. When I heard about the protests and violence against the asylum seekers and refugees, I realized I had to do something.

I had done some research…

As a Mexican who was born in the United States and having family in Ciudad Juarez, I’ve heard first hand stories of violence in the Latin American world. Today I was heart broken when I saw a news report of protests and violence against the Central American caravan in Tijuana. Tijuana has had many problems of violence as a result of drug cartel violence and gang wars. The journey up through Mexico is a long and dangerous journey. Asylum seekers and refugees are especially at risk of danger along the way. Many people take advantage of, manipulate, rob, and scam…

While in Lithuania this past summer, I felt an urge to pay my respects to Holocaust Memorial outside of Vilnius in Paneriai. Paneriai holds the site of the grounds where Nazi’s murdered 100,000 people, in which 70,000 of them were Jews. The site is outside the metropolitan area of Vilnius, and appeared to surrounded by woods. I entered the memorial site on a Monday afternoon, and it became very apparent that there was no one working there and no one visiting there. The signs were mostly in Lithuanian, however I was able to read signs in English and from the…