Tag Archives: U.S.-Mexico border
The Trump Administration’s Own Numbers Show ‘Zero Tolerance’ Didn’t Work
The “zero-tolerance” policy appears to have achieved only one thing: Making it extremely difficult for asylum-seekers to follow the law.
Border immigration statistics released Thursday appear to show that the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy has not deterred asylum...Read More
Houston Photo Exhibit Documents First Markers of Modern U.S.-Mexico Border
How strange, David Taylor’s camera seems to say, that this haphazard line has survived nearly 170 years as an international border, when so much else around it has changed.
Texans are accustomed to thinking of the U.S.-Mexico border as a fact of nature, defined by the course of the Rio Grande. It may make little sense to local comm...Read More
The 10 Best Observer Stories of 2016: ‘I Have a Name/Yo Tengo Nombre’
‘I Have a Name’ is an online visual database to help identify migrants who died crossing the Texas-Mexico border.
Editor’s Note: This is not a story per se. It’s a labor of love that took Multimedia Editor Jen Reel a year to complete. It’s also a blend of journali...Read More
Introducing ‘I Have a Name/Yo Tengo Nombre’
‘I Have a Name’ is an online visual database to help identify migrants who died crossing the Texas-Mexico border.
Today, the Texas Observer is launching a project a year in the making. “I Have a Name/Yo Tengo Nombre” is an unusual undertaking for the Observer: Most of t...Read More
Renaissance Tejana: ‘Rant. Chant. Chisme.’
Amalia Ortiz transforms her rants, chants and poetry slams for the printed page.
Like the matadora, Ortiz practices her craft while a stampede rages around her. This is what she will be known for....Read More
Beyond ‘Beyond the Border’
Help us build an online tool to identify migrants who died in South Texas.
Today, we’re launching a crowdfunding campaign with Beacon to build an online tool that we think can help. Working with forensic anthropologists at Baylor Uni...Read More
Femicide in Juárez is Not a Myth
A vocal group of American critics claims that Juarez is not a place of disproportionate violence against women. Here’s why they’re wrong.
While Molloy, Powell and other critics may not consider femicide to be real or important compared to their preferred research on drug violence and global capita...Read More
New Hope for Identifying Migrant Bodies in South Texas
In the past seven years, the bodies of hundreds of migrants have been recovered in the Texas borderlands, but only a fraction of the remains have been identifie...Read More
A Q&A With Todd Miller, Author of Border Patrol Nation
Miller talks about the growing global border security industry and the changing role of the U.S. Border Patrol...Read More