El amor cruza fronteras / Love crosses borders
People stepping off deportation planes often do so in shoes without laces—another small indignity in a much larger unraveling. What happens when someone who has lived that reality returns to meet them with dignity, presence, and care?
What does solidarity look like when democracy, dignity, and due process are at stake? In a powerful speech delivered at Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Anton Flores-Maisonet reflects on the human cost of displacement, detention, and U.S. intervention abroad—and the ways Casa Alterna stands with asylum seekers in the fight for justice and humanity.
This fall, Casa Alterna launched a new intentional community model, with six residents shaping a year centered on hospitality, solidarity, and mutual support.
He arrived on his 18th birthday, facing detention or deportation—until one simple "yes" changed everything.
While politicians celebrate Independence Day with fireworks and funding for new migrant jails, Casa Alterna reclaims the spirit of July 4th at the gates of ICE, where resistance and hospitality converge as a faithful act of freedom.
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