20 Ways You Can Help Immigrants Now
By Julia Travers Immigrant children are dying in federal custody. Children in detention are being denied basic supplies like soap and blankets—and the Trump administration says that’s fine. Trump…
‘This Is Sick’: Horror as Trump Administration Plans to Detain Migrant Children at Former Japanese Internment Camp
By Jake Johnson Lending even greater significance to the parallels commentators and historians have drawn between U.S. migrant detention centers and concentration camps of the past, the Trump administration…
Hung Jury in Humanitarian Aid Trial Shows Arizonans Still ‘Standing Their Ground’ for Justice
by Eoin Higgins An activist who was put on trial for providing water and humanitarian aid to migrants in the American Southwest desert was acquitted Tuesday by a hung…
President Reportedly Considered Detaining Kids at Guantanamo
By Jake Johnson The Trump administration earlier this year reportedly considered detaining migrant children at Guantánamo Bay, the 17-year-old U.S. prison in Cuba that human rights advocates have…
Challenge for Democrats Must Not Be Their Immigration Differences, But Unseating President
Maribel Hastings With the chaos that his immigration policies have generated at the border, Donald Trump is trying to get the Democrats’ backs against the wall by accusing them…
ICE Arrests 280 Workers in Largest Immigration Raid in a Decade
by Melissa Cruz The scene outside a technology repair company in Allen, Texas on April 3, was bleak. In the aftermath of an immigration raid, family members gathered to…
The Faces Behind the Wall: My Experience at the US-México Border
Zarefah Baroud Nothing prepares you for Juárez, México. The human grief, but also the resilience of the human spirit that I have witnessed at the US-México border compels morally-guided…
Families Belong Together
Naomi Pérez I was just eight years old when I learned the harsh reality of immigration in the United States. My grandfather passed away in March of 2009. For…
Holy Infant So Tender and Mild
Abby Zimet The body of seven-year-old Jakelin Ameí Rosmery Caal Maquin has been returned to Guatemala, but her horrific death at the hands of U.S. Border Patrol has left…
The Border I Know
Luis Torres I was born and raised on the border, in the city of Laredo, Texas, which sits on the Rio Grande River across from Nuevo Laredo, México. If…