On Their Own: Border Humanitarians Respond to a Crisis Created by Governments

“I kept thinking, Who is going to come step up to the plate and help us here?" says Dora Rodriguez, co-founder of a migrant resource center in Sásabe, Sonora.

Dora Rodriguez preparing meals in the kitchen of Casa de la Esperanza with Alma Rodriguez (right), a volunteer from Sásabe in March 2022.

In September 2020, Tucson-based humanitarians Dora Rodriguez and Gail Kocourek were delivering 700 meals a week to stranded migrants and asylum seekers in the small Mexican border town of Sásabe, Sonora.

Three years lat…