A Manufactured Crisis: In Defense of Migration
If one had to zero in on biggest the issue that propelled MAGA populism to the forefront of American politics, it is likely to be immigration. The first cause that…
Central American Migrants
Migrant Caravan Advances North Through Southern Mexico As U.S. Officials Head To Mexico
Thousands of migrants and asylum seekers moved slowly north across the southern Mexican state of Chiapas on Tuesday in a caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, one day before…
Biden’s Border
On September 23rd, at about 2:30 a.m., a Border Patrol surveillance camera captured two people crossing the international boundary between Mexico and the United States on the outskirts of Nogales, Arizona. A…
The End of Title 42 and the Triumph of the Border-Industrial Complex
On May 11th, I was with a group of people at the bottom of the Paso del Norte bridge in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Suddenly, I realized that I didn’t have…
The Border-Industrial Complex in the Biden Era
First, it was the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) vehicles speeding along on the road in front of our campsite. Then it was the Border Patrol’s all-terrain vehicles moving swiftly…
19,000 Children Cross the Dangerous Darien Gap this year, says UNICEF
The number of migrant children who cross the Darien Gap on foot has hit an all-time high, UNICEF warned today. The Darien Gap is an extensive and inhospitable strip of…
Trumpism with a Biden Face: US Haitian Policy
With that orange haired brute of a president supposedly ushered out of the White House with moralising delight, the Biden administration was all keen to turn over a new leaf. …
Kids cannot go without food, migrants say
People trying to migrate to the U.S. tell their stories, which have been collected from media reports. Migrant Charlie Jean had crossed back into Ciudad Acuña from the camps to…
Massive, Illegal Expulsion of Migrants from U.S.A
In a massive show of force, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) mounted officers attempted to contain migrants as they crossed the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, into…
Migration Is Not the Crisis: What Washington Could Really Do in Central America
Earlier this month, a Honduran court found David Castillo, a U.S.-trained former Army intelligence officer and the head of an internationally financed hydroelectric company, guilty of the 2016 murder of celebrated Indigenous…
Demilitarizing the Border
From the mountaintops of southern Arizona, you can see a world without borders. I realized this just before I met Juan Carlos. I was about 20 miles from the border…
Will Biden’s Central American Plan Slow Migration (or Speed It Up)?
Joe Biden entered the White House with some inspiring yet contradictory positions on immigration and Central America. He promised to reverse Donald Trump’s draconian anti-immigrant policies while, through his “Plan…
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