Undoing Trump-Era Policies is Not Enough to Transform the Immigration System

Undoing Trump-Era Policies is Not Enough to Transform the Immigration System

The Biden and López Obrador administrations should take the lead from solidarity organizations in the U.S. and Mexico and decriminalize ...
The Origins of an Early School-to-Deportation Pipeline

The Origins of an Early School-to-Deportation Pipeline

Appeals to childhood innocence helped enshrine undocumented kids’ access to education. But this fraught politics of childhood has also inadvertently ...
The Deportation Machine (Review)

The Deportation Machine (Review)

Goodman provides insight into today’s crises, by documenting the history of three mechanisms of expulsion: formal deportation, voluntary departure (“return”), ...
Border Land, Border Water (Review)

Border Land, Border Water (Review)

C.J. Alvarez's new book encourages the reader to see beyond the infrastructure that litters the borderlands, question what we take ...
The Opportunistic Border Logic of the Pandemic

The Opportunistic Border Logic of the Pandemic

As the Trump administration uses the pandemic to enact its border obsession, we must instead reframe our thinking around interdependence.  ...
Death by Deportation, With Help From the Human Rights Establishment

Death by Deportation, With Help From the Human Rights Establishment

By defining violence narrowly, the asylum system—and human rights organizations that uphold it—legitimates deporting people back to face everyday injustices ...
MAS Party Under Threat as Bolivia Moves Towards New Elections (Without Evo)

MAS Party Under Threat as Bolivia Moves Towards New Elections (Without Evo)

With new elections scheduled in Bolivia, the MAS party under attack, and the resurgent Right fortified by the de facto ...
Will Evo Morales Survive Bolivia’s Fires?

Will Evo Morales Survive Bolivia’s Fires?

Devastating wildfires in Bolivia may affect Evo Morales's prospects for a fourth presidential term, or curb his governing mandate.    ...