Immigration

The experiences of migrant children detained in a Texas tent city are on display at a rare exhibit of their art at UT El Paso’s Centennial Museum.

The ability to pay should never stand in the way of refugees and asylum-seekers obtaining the protection to which they are legally entitled.

The RadioLAND podcast for May 10, 2019.

FROM LATINO USA

In the last decade, over 24,000 women have been killed across Mexico alone.

As almost every country around the world detains asylum-seekers or other migrants, they are relying on detention to deter, punish and serve a variety of other purposes.

Mr. A faced a final order of deportation when the Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP) intervened last year to try to help reunify him with his children.

Latino USA sits down with Sister Norma Pimentel in her convent chapel to talk about the work she is doing in her border community for immigrants.

The multimedia report documents how Warren’s arrest was part of a series of actions taken by the Trump administration against the work done by human aid volunteers at the border.

The digital project’s website allows for viewers to navigate through the diverse lives of migrants and their families whom students closely followed to capture their experiences.

“For the last two years, officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have frequented Massachusetts courthouses, surveilling, arresting and detaining immigrants.”

During the decade leading up to 2016, the city’s foreign-born population had roughly doubled to about 7,000, making it home to one of the nation’s fastest-growing immigrant communities.

Each year, school-aged children living with their families in California’s migrant family housing centers, many of whom are U.S. citizens, miss between three to six months of schooling.

“To allow this retaliatory conduct to proceed would broadly chill protected speech, among not only activists subject to final orders of deportation but also those citizens and other residents who would fear retaliation against others,” the decision states.

The number of women who make difficult, often harrowing, journeys to the United States to flee domestic and gang violence is rising.

This is not a time to turn away from the protection of human rights, but a time to redouble our support for the people at the US-Mexico border who are in desperate need of care.

“you asked why I was so angry”

Every year, tens of thousands of Americans take alternative spring breaks and mission trips or embark on “voluntourism” journeys.

The “othering” of a community is a bipartisan thing.

As my doctoral research into Europe’s 2015-2016 refugee crisis shows, stricter border control doesn’t stop migration. Often, it makes it more dangerous.

Rock on.

I have spent much of the last decade conducting on-the-ground fieldwork in Central America, and along the migration paths through Mexico, seeking answers.