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 ...
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 ...
The Problem with Border Security
Border security—supported by Republicans and Democrats alike—is responsible for the death of Jakelin Caal, the exoneration of the Border Patrol ...
Lessons of the Chicano Movement Today
Jimmy Patiño’s Raza Si, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego, reveals connections between the early ...
Pursuing ‘A Radical Faith’ in the Trump Era
What can the assassination of Sister Maura during El Salvador’s civil war teach us about humanity for Central American refugees ...
Migration as Reparations
Instead of a “surge” in deportations, the U.S. government should be paying off its imperial debt to Central America ...
How Human Rights Organizations Are Implicated in Migrant Deaths
By legitimizing exclusionary border policing regimes in the U.S. and EU, groups like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International contribute ...
Expanding Insecurity
As immigration enforcement and local police continue to merge, bureaucracy has become a crutch on which the U.S. immigration policing apparatus ...
How Deportation Created A New Class Of Disposable Soldiers
The Department of Homeland Security has deported thousands of U.S. military veterans in recent years, giving new meaning to the ...
Killing With Impunity on the U.S.-Mexico Border: The Global Color Line
A shooting by a Border Patrol agent in southern California last week and a recent U.S. drone strike in Yemen ...
The Mobile State: Local Resistance Fights Border Patrol Expansion in Washington State
A new report documents the detrimental impact on families and communties brought about by the increased Border Patrol presence in ...
Meet the New Boss: Jeh Johnson
Jeh Johnson is the new head of the Department of Homeland Security, and thus oversees matters relating to U.S. immigration ...
