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Immigration

Deaths Uncovered in Laredo Show the Ongoing Toll of Border Militarization

“The people we’re finding now dying on the U.S. side of the border are the people who could not wait.”

by Jason Buch

Keep Reading

As World Cup Unfolds, Immigrant Rights Organizers Seek a Reckoning over Dallas’ Relationship with ICE

by Emily Markwiese

A Texas Immigration Lawyer Breaks Down Family Detention, Habeas Corpus, and Senate Bill 4

by Gaige Davila

American Citizenship and Other Myths

by Gus Bova

Nov 29, 2021

Escape From Kabul

As the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan in August, one family was unsure if they'd ever make it back home to Texas.

by Jessica Goudeau

Sep 02, 2021

The River, At Night

Where the Rio Grande narrows, migrants take their chance.

by Ivan Armando Flores

Aug 26, 2021

Resisting the Allure of Innocence

As the Biden administration works to reunite families who were separated at the border, it’s time to write a new narrative about who deserves protection.

by Gabriel Daniel Solis

Aug 25, 2021

The Supreme Court Upholds a Federal Judge’s Order to Reinstate “Remain in Mexico”

The Migrant Protection Protocols program has been widely condemned by immigrant advocates as harmful to the safety of migrants and to their right to seek asylum.

by René Kladzyk

Jul 27, 2021

For Greg Abbott, All the Border’s a Stage

But political theater can still get people hurt.

by Gus Bova

Jul 01, 2021

Undocumented Immigrants Continue to Be Expelled From the U.S. Under Title 42 COVID-19 Measures

The Trump-era public health order was issued by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in 2020 and calls for rapid expulsion of migrants and asylum seekers without the right to trial, citing COVID-19.

by Ursula Muñoz-Schaefer, The Big Bend Sentinel

Jan 20, 2021

Deaths in ICE Custody Skyrocketed During the COVID-19 Pandemic

A new report shows Texas led the nation with seven deaths among immigration detainees from 2018-2020.

by Lise Olsen

Patanatic Aug 12, 2020

El ducto del coronavirus

Las deportaciones estadounidenses de migrantes han exportado Covid-19 a Guatemala y han provocado miedo, caos y el colapso de los ya frágiles servicios de salud.

by Anna-Catherine Brigida and Morena Pérez Joachin

Patanatic Aug 12, 2020

The Coronavirus Pipeline

U.S. deportations of migrants have exported COVID-19 to Guatemala and prompted fear, chaos, and a collapse of already fragile health services.

by Anna-Catherine Brigida and Morena Pérez Joachin

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