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‘Till They Have to Roll Me Off the Floor’

Sylvia Garcia on the immigration narrative, the 14th Amendment, and the long fight for Dreamers

by Gus Bova

Keep Reading

‘Asylum as We Know It’: An Immigration Historian on Trump, Refuge, and Exclusion

by Francesca D’Annunzio

She Fled Mexico as a Child. Now, She Teaches Migrant Kids in Tamaulipas.

by Francesca D’Annunzio

‘We Are People Too’: Scenes of Migration in Matamoros and Reynosa

by Francesca D’Annunzio

State of Texas: How to Get Asylum or Become a Refugee Jan 14, 2016

State of Texas: How to Get Asylum or Become a Refugee

by Patrick Michels

Child welfare advocates, social workers and asylum-seekers described sterile, prison-like conditions in Texas' immigrant family detention centers, which the state is currently considering licensing as child care facilities. Dec 09, 2015

Experts, Activists Challenge Detention Child Care Licenses

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

A handwritten letter from "E.," a woman on hunger strike inside the T. Don Hutto detention facility. Nov 05, 2015

Hutto Hunger Strike Reportedly Growing Despite ICE Denials

One striker's daughter says staff retaliated against her mom by transferring her to solitary confinement in an all-male facility.

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

Jul 23, 2014

At New Detention Facility It’s ‘Hurry Up and Deport’ Central Americans

by Melissa del Bosque

Tony Diaz Jan 03, 2014

Observer Radio Episode 39: Texas Gets Schooled In Mexican-American History and Central Americans Seek Asylum

by Jonathan McNamara

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