Tag Archives: Immigrants
Eye on Texas: Xiomara, a Domestic Worker Who’s ‘Invisible in Austin’
In March's Eye on Texas feature, photographer Julia Robinson follows Xiomara, an undocumented domestic worker who founded a cleaning cooperative....Read More
Observer Radio Episode 78: The Governor’s Debate and Border Stories
Dr. Marsha Griffin gives firsthand accounts of the harsh circumstances faced by mothers and children desperately crossing the border into Texas. ...Read More
Into the Wilderness
The first in our four-part Beyond the Border series, produced in collaboration with The Guardian, examining migrant deaths in South Texas. In part one, we repor...Read More
Fiction Review: Cristina Henríquez’s The Book of Unknown Americans Complicates the ‘Single Story’ of Latinos in the U.S.
In Texas, at least, Mexican immigration has largely defined the Latino narrative, but Cristina Henríquez’s big-hearted second novel challenges this “single...Read More
Eye On Texas: Strangers In a New Land
As a child of immigrants, Lizzie Chen wanted to document how Asian families assimilate in the U.S....Read More
Q&A with Oscar Martinez, Author of ‘The Beast’
Martinez talks about the three years he spent dodging organized crime and reporting on the hidden life of Central American migrants.
After reading Martinez’s courageous reporting it’s a wonder anyone — including the author — survives the journey. The 30-year-old journalist spent three...Read More
DPS Checkpoints Create Fear, Havoc in the Rio Grande Valley
The Texas Department of Public Safety was warned during a legislative hearing in 2011 that they would “run afoul of the courts” if driver’s license and in...Read More
Public Defender: Prison Reform Must Include Undocumented Immigrants
Crime rates have been steadily declining in America, requiring a rethinking of drug prosecutions. So too with immigration prosecutions....Read More
A DPS Helicopter Sniper Kills Two Men on Border Highway
First the armored boats with machine guns on the Rio Grande now helicopter snipers. Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, seems bent ...Read More