The U.S. border patrol apprehends migrants in El Paso, Texas in 2019 (Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, Mani Albrecht)

Class-Action Lawsuit Secures New Procedural Protections for Children in Federal Immigration Detentio...

A preliminary injunction represents one of the most significant achievements for the rights of unaccompanied children in immigration detention in ...
The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

The Case for Nuance in Immigrant Stories (Review)

NACLA
In his new book The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez, Aaron Bobrow-Strain captures why true border stories defy simplicity.  ...
A 2016 “border bottleneck” at the Bridge of the Americas joining El Paso and Juárez. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection/ Wikimedia Commons)

Trump’s Wall at Nixon’s Border

How Richard Nixon’s Operation Intercept laid the foundation for decades of U.S.-Mexico border policy, including Donald Trump’s wall ...
The Eloy Detention Center in Arizona (Photo by Steve Pavey/Hope in Focus photography)

Bipartisan Immigration Imprisonment

The number of migrants in detention has risen exponentially in the past two decades, under both Republican and Democratic administrations ...
“Bring Them Home” action in Tijuana, Mexico in 2014. (Steve Pavey/Hope in Focus)

Report: More than DREAMs

How DREAMer activism is breaking down the walls that divide the undocumented community ...
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Child Migrants Are Refugees the U.S. Helped Create

Central American children fleeing poverty and gang violence are refugees—and should be treated as such ...