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 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)
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
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
By defining violence narrowly, the asylum system—and human rights organizations that uphold it—legitimates deporting people back to face everyday injustices ...
The Case for Nuance in Immigrant Stories (Review)
In his new book The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez, Aaron Bobrow-Strain captures why true border stories defy simplicity. ...
Reducing Migrants’ Lives to One Grisly Photograph
In the name of “sparking a reaction” from an indifferent public, images of migrant deaths decontextualize their reasons for fleeing ...
Living and Dying in Border Purgatory
At least six children have died in ICE custody in the past year. As draconian immigration policy grows ever-more inhumane, ...
