Undoing Trump-Era Policies is Not Enough to Transform the Immigration System
The Biden and López Obrador administrations should take the lead from solidarity organizations in the U.S. and Mexico and decriminalize immigration.
The Origins of an Early School-to-Deportation Pipeline
Appeals to childhood innocence helped enshrine undocumented kids' access to education. But this fraught politics of childhood has also inadvertently reinforced criminalization.
The Deportation Machine (Review)
Goodman provides insight into today's crises, by documenting the history of three mechanisms of expulsion: formal deportation, voluntary departure ("return"), and so-called self-deportation.
Border Land, Border Water (Review)
C.J. Alvarez's new book encourages the reader to see beyond the infrastructure that litters the borderlands, question what we take for granted, and imagine what could have been.
Border Land, Border Water (Review)
C.J. Alvarez's new book encourages the reader to see beyond the infrastructure that litters the borderlands, question what we take for granted, and imagine what could have been.
The Opportunistic Border Logic of the Pandemic
As the Trump administration uses the pandemic to enact its border obsession, we must instead reframe our thinking around interdependence.
Death by Deportation, With Help From the Human Rights Establishment
By defining violence narrowly, the asylum systemand human rights organizations that uphold itlegitimates deporting people back to face everyday injustices. The pandemic only further illuminates this inhumanity.
The Case for Nuance in Immigrant Stories (Review)
In his new book The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez, Aaron Bobrow-Strain captures why true border stories defy simplicity.
Reducing Migrants’ Lives to One Grisly Photograph
In the name of “sparking a reaction” from an indifferent public, images of migrant deaths decontextualize their reasons for fleeing and gloss over the impact of decades of prevention through deterrence policy.
Reducing Migrants’ Lives to One Grisly Photograph
In the name of "sparking a reaction" from an indifferent public, images of migrant deaths decontextualize their reasons for fleeing and gloss over the impact of decades of prevention through deterrence policy.
Abolish ICE! Fighting for Humanity over Profit in Immigration Policy
No extent of reform can humanize an agency designed to criminalize migrants, deny their humanity, and profit off their detention and suffering. So Abolish ICE activists want to shut it down.
Living and Dying in Border Purgatory
At least six children have died in ICE custody in the past year. As draconian immigration policy grows ever-more inhumane, we can only expect the suffering to increase.
