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Faith groups resolve to protect migrants, refugees after Trump win
“We will not be intimidated into silence or inaction.”
What does solidarity mean at the border?
It’s not about electoral politics—not when both major parties embrace the policies that are oppressing people.
The humanity of human smugglers
Anthropologist Jason De León charts the desperation, grief, and friendships of the Central American guías who bring migrants across borders.
Border encounters
The US-Mexico border is rich with ordinary life—not just the sort of stories amplified by political rhetoric.
Migration through a child’s eyes
Javier Zamora’s memoir chronicles the harrowing solo journey he made from El Salvador to the US at age nine.
Listening to—and translating—the voices of asylum seekers
In Alejandra Oliva’s new memoir, she describes how her body becomes an archive of migrants’ stories.
The border is everywhere
For example, it runs right through a detention center in Mississippi.
A liturgy in the borderlands
Alvaro Enciso plants crosses where migrants have died, to keep them from disappearing into oblivion.
Why are we calling the predictable seasonal shift at our border a surge?
Pretending we don't expect something gets us off the hook for not being prepared.
How asylum seeker Rosayra Pablo Cruz got her children back
Pablo Cruz and Julie Collazo tell a story from the migrant detention crisis.
What an open door to asylum seekers looks like
A Laredo pastor and his family are hard at work helping others, on both sides of the border.
At the border, “law and order” looks a lot like chaos
Trump’s new policies are creating confusion and misery.
Visiting a tent city in Mexico created by Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocol
The children here are gaunt and listless. They are running out of time.
See the asylum seekers’ wounds and believe
At the border, survivors of violence present their scarred bodies as testimony.
Alejandra Oliva’s devoted attention at the border
A student of mine went to Tijuana to help. She found she could help the most simply by paying attention.
Communion at the border wall in Tijuana
What does it mean to worship in the middle of a wound?
The shutdown shows why governing by symbol doesn’t work
The border wall means a lot to Trump. It means very little for public policy.
On patrol at the border
When Francisco Cantú took a job as a border patrol agent, he didn’t consider the cost to his humanity.
A visit to the border with the New Sanctuary Coalition
In Tijuana, we witnessed the resilience and humanity of the migrant movement.