A SURJ Member’s Eyewitness Report from the Border

Migrant women, children, and men standing in a line; in the foreground, a woman is holding a baby close to her, and to her right, a man holds another baby in one arm while resting his hand on another child standing in front of him.

By Lynn Levey
Children separated from their parents, families traveling on foot for months to get to the U.S. border, people fleeing rape, gang violence, government brutality, torture, and murder - we were horrified by the stories we had been hearing about the situation at the southern border. So earlier this month, my daughter and I traveled to Tijuana, to volunteer and support asylum-seekers there. We knew thousands of migrants had arrived in Tijuana without resources, facing a standoff at the border where, in violation of U.S. and international law, they are not being allowed to cross into our country to seek asylum.

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