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How the Asylum Process Became Another Carceral Matrix
The Trump administration has issued numerous policies to systematically dismantle asylum as a legal right.
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Border residents wanted to prevent deaths. Instead, they were accused of crimes.
Most religions teach people to help those in need. But what happens when that mandate clashes with how the government views the law?
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Traumatized migrant kids were being shot. One school district came up with a plan to save them
Gilberto Ramirez spent three years in Oakland, California, working long hours pruning trees and grooming lawns with one goal in mind: saving up enough money for his wife and four children back in San Pedro Necta, Guatemala, to come join him. In March 2016, Ramirez got his wish when his wife, three sons and daughter reunited…
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Deported amid coronavirus: US sends Guatemalan family home to face new threat
As the plane descended into Guatemala City, María tried to calm her six-year-old niece. “Mami, I feel like I’m falling,” the girl told her from the window seat next to her. María, 26, was scared too, and not just because this deportation flight was her first time in the air. They were returning to Guatemala – the…
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‘It is beyond cruel’: Ice refuses to reunite girl with the only family she has left
For more than nine months, María, 23, has been waiting in an immigration detention center in Arizona hoping to reunite with the six-year-old niece she raised as a daughter. When the two asked for asylum at the border last March because they feared for their lives in Guatemala, border officials detained María in the Eloy…
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Arizona volunteers form ‘underground’ network to house migrants released by ICE
By Marta Vázquez’s count, since Christmas she’s welcomed 306 newly arrived Central American parents and their children to spend the night at her house in Glendale, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona.
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US troops’ arrival prompts unease on both sides of the border in Arizona
More than 5,600 active duty troops are now in place along the border in Texas, Arizona and California, and that number is expected to grow to more than 7,000, according to US Northern Command, which is responsible for US military activity in the continental US.
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Thousands Of Child Migrants Go Unrepresented In Immigration Court
Since Border Patrol agents discovered her lost in the desert last summer, she has done everything the government has asked of her so far, including showing up three times to immigration court. But she never had a lawyer. Until now. Read More At Fronteras Desk
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Border Businesses Lose Bank Accounts Amid Money-Laundering Fears
Some U.S. banks are closing the accounts of certain customers along the Mexican side of the border. It’s part of an effort to stay in line with U.S. anti-money-laundering regulations, but it’s taking a toll on legitimate border business.
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Trouble With Profiling
U.S. Supreme Court precedent still allows Border Patrol agents to factor in someone’s “Mexican appearance” when deciding who to pull over and question – as long as that is not the only reason for the stop.
