Migrants wait at the Casa de Migrante Juárez in March 2019 (Photo by Molly Molloy)

Living and Dying in Border Purgatory

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At least six children have died in ICE custody in the past year. As draconian immigration policy grows ever-more inhumane, ...
Police mutiny. Hernan Andia, Los Tiempos.

Bolivia: TIPNIS Marchers Reach La Paz, Following Police Strike and Coup Allegations

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The second national indigenous march to protest the Bolivian government's proposed highway through the Isiboro-Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park ...
Migrants at a press conference in Tapachula on the morning of Monday October 22 (Photo by Rafael Sanchez Rodríguez)

A Humanitarian Exodus

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The 7,000-person strong caravan from Central America has made international headlines and been targeted by the Trump administration. But the ...
Customs and Border Protection at the San Ysidro Port of Entry on January 10th, 2019. (Photo by Pedro Rios)

Border Shutdowns: State Violence and Psychological Warfare Performed

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Recent displays of state violence from CBP and the excessive militarization of Mexico-U.S. land ports of entry are normalizing the ...
Crosses on the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Nogales, Sonora, commemorate migrants who have died while trying to cross into the United States (Jonathan McIntosh/Flickr)

The Militarization of the Southern Border Is a Long-Standing American Tradition

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Trump’s wall is just the latest incarnation of an old fixation ...
Demonstrations against the TSE ruling in La Paz, Bolivia in early December (Sara Aliaga/Pagina Siete).

Tensions Roil Bolivia as Electoral Court Says Morales Can Run Again

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The Electoral Court's recent decision to uphold Evo Morales's fourth presidential bid has further polarized Bolivia, with the outcome of ...
A monument for those who have died attempting to cross the US-Mexican border in Tijuana, México (Tomas Castelazo/Wikimedia Commons).

The Problem with Border Security

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Border security—supported by Republicans and Democrats alike—is responsible for the death of Jakelin Caal, the exoneration of the Border Patrol ...
Attendees of the border Encuentro in Nogales, Sonora, seen from the Arizona side of the fence (photo by Katharine Davies Samway)

At the Arizona Border, Activists Protest U.S Foreign and Migration Policy

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Even as the U.S.-Mexico border reaches new heights of militarization, this year’s School of the Americas Watch border Encuentro (meeting) provided a ...