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…
Lessons from South of the Border
Jasmine Aguilera President Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric hasn’t just infected U.S. politics. Now it’s made its way south of the border. As a caravan of hundreds of migrants arrive in…
How You Can Help Migrant Caravan
Lornet Turnbull In the town of Mapastepec, in southern México, poor women are bent over an open fire, making soup for more than 2,000 young Salvadoran refugees who were…