Since 1954
Tapachula, five miles from Mexico’s border with Guatemala, has become a principal destination for the world’s deportees. And in a cruel twist, even Mexicans expelled from the United States have found themselves there, regrouping after being deported—not home to Mexico—but first to Central America.
Food spoils when the power goes out, exposing more people to hunger and food insecurity. But the crisis goes deeper than that.
Punishments, injuries, and deaths—including from heat—on TDCJ farms are more hidden than they were in the years following convict leasing.
After unprecedented protests swept Cuba, a huge wave of people fled. A journalist shares his saga of being smuggled to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Encampment sweeps in unhoused communities result in thousands of unnecessary deaths every year, a former City of San Antonio outreach worker writes.
More migrants are being stranded at the U.S.-Mexico border under Biden's executive order.
New plaintiffs have expanded a 2023 lawsuit against TDCJ, accusing the agency of “cooking [prisoners] to death."
A new investigation of a deadly fire that killed 40 migrants in a locked detention cell in Mexico shows that keys and fire extinguishers were readily available, but withheld.
In San Antonio, a community coalesces around solidarity with Gaza.
A Texas federal court has struck down a 2023 law creating protections for pregnant state workers based on its paltry costs.