Inside the shelter at the Benito Juárez sports complex, November 28, 2018 (Photo by Nidia Bautista)

El Éxodo Centroamericano: Resistance Through Solidarity

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Central American refugees are confronting violence and harassment at the border after an arduous journey fleeing imminent danger in their ...
Border Patrol helicopter and ground operations in the Sonoran desert of southern Arizona, outside Arivaca. (Sophie Smith)

The Desert of Asylum: From Internment to Disappearance

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When state-sanctioned practices of child kidnapping, family internment, and indefinite detention cut off the possibility of seeking asylum at official ...
A Chicano mural in San Diego (Jay Galvin/Flickr)

Lessons of the Chicano Movement Today

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Jimmy Patiño’s Raza Si, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego, reveals connections between the early ...
Youths protest Trump's zero tolerance policy at a Families Belong Together rally in Iowa in June, 2018 (Flickr/Phil Roeder)

Punishing Lawfulness: Trump’s Assault on Authorized Migration

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The Trump administration’s crackdown on unauthorized immigration obscures his larger effort: to prevent lawful forms of immigration for migrants and ...
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent pats down an undocumented immigrant in 2011, as part of an Obama-era initiative crackdown. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

Part II: Immigration Enforcement Unbound

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One mother’s recent deportation to her native Honduras reflects how the U.S. immigration regime not only separates families, but impels ...
O'odham salt runners and local landowners erect a sign at the salt flats that reads: “Tohono O’odham Nation, Sacred Site, No Trespassing.” (Tohono O’odham Men’s Salt Pilgrimage)

Keeping the Salt in the Earth

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On the U.S.-Mexico border, the Tohono O’odham Nation is forming a transnational movement to resist salt mining projects in the ...
The entrance to a detention camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. (Wikimedia Commons/Kathleen T. Rhem)

A Children’s Gitmo on the Border

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The Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility set the stage institutionally and legally for Trump’s family separation policies on the U.S.-Mexico border.  ...
Border Patrol agents conduct intake of undocumented border crossers at the Central Processing Center in McAllen, Texas, on June 17, 2018. (U.S. Customs and Border Patrol)

No Way Home

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Trump’s new zero-tolerance immigration policy, which separates parents from their children, is a cruel strategy to curb the flow of ...