Karen came to the United States in 2019, with her 9 year old daughter. But after her daughter returned to Guatemala, immigration enforcement officials approached and detained Karen, holding her in New Jersey's Elizabeth Detention Center. Today, she is fighting her deportation, while working to support herself in New York.

AFSC's Pedro Rios reports from the U.S. – Mexico border in Tijuana.

At the start of the pandemic, the Trump administration closed the southern border to asylum seekers, deporting many back to dangerous conditions—against the advice of public health experts who found there was no public health justification for the decision.

Since 2013, AFSC has worked in Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya, a sprawling complex that is now home to hundreds of thousands of refugees and asylum seekers from Somalia, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Many have fled civil war, drought, famine, and extreme poverty. Others have never known life outside of the camps, being part of a second or even third generation in their family to live in these settlements, the first of which was constructed in the early ’90s.