Santuario Frontera is home of the UCSD-Alacrán Community Station, an ongoing development in the Alacrán Canyon, an informal settlement in Tijuana near the US–Mexico border wall impacted by uncontrolled urbanization, illegal dumpsites, erosion and widespread clearing of native vegetation. Santuario Frontera is a partnership between UC San Diego and the religious organization Templo Embajadores de Jesús, a collaboration that has incrementally transformed the site into a shelter for hundreds of Haitian and Central American migrants escaping violence, political instability and economic inequality. Santuario Frontera aims to transform the refugee camp from a place of short-term habitation and service provision to an enduring and inclusive socio-spatial infrastructure, where migrants have the freedom to migrate or remain if they desire. To achieve this, the UC San Diego Center on Global Justice is designing and building spaces along with pedagogical programming to restore the existing environment, increase ecological resilience and social adaptation to climate change, and integrate the migrants and their children into the city's civic, social and economic network.