U.S.-Mexico Border

June 9, 2017
Todd Miller and Joe Nevins

From the print magazine: Trump’s plan to wall off the entire U.S.-Mexico border is just one of a growing list of actions that extend U.S. border patrol efforts far past the international boundary itself.

March 9, 2017

How U.S. border policies constitute a new kind of state-led “disappearance.”

January 30, 2017

Without a reckoning of how past policies have shaped current migratory patterns, restriction efforts – Democratic and Republican – miss the point.

October 26, 2016

The number of migrants in detention has risen exponentially in the past two decades, under both Republican and Democratic administrations.

October 26, 2016
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

The number of migrants in detention has risen exponentially in the past two decades, under both Republican and Democratic administrations.

October 23, 2014
José Raúl Guzmán

Rodrigo Reyes talks about his new film, Purgatorio, eschewing the traditional border narrative in favor of an acutely personal and philosophical reflection.

October 14, 2014
Ed Morales

A guerrera de la luz, Lila Downs talks about her current and future projects and what it means to live and make art on real and metaphorical borders.

August 25, 2014
The present "crisis" stems from the way our economy depends on separating parents from their children in order to exploit their cheap labor—and then our horror or dismay when they want to be reunited.
May 12, 2014
Kyle Barron

Uniting 31 musicians, artists, and activists to chronicle the struggles faced by border communities, the album "Border Songs" has raised over $50,000 of direct humanitarian aid. Producer Robert Neustadt considers it one of the most eclectic albums in the world.

March 15, 2014
Diana Bryson Barnes

Recent undocumented immigrant action "Bring Them Home Otay" aims for family reunification and led to the well-publicized detention of 30 asylum seekers. 

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