border

Helen Boursier explores spirituality before, during, and after people decide to cross into the United States.

“We will not be intimidated into silence or inaction.”

It’s not about electoral politics—not when both major parties embrace the policies that are oppressing people.

Anthropologist Jason De León charts the desperation, grief, and friendships of the Central American guías who bring migrants across borders.

The US-Mexico border is rich with ordinary life—not just the sort of stories amplified by political rhetoric.

Javier Zamora’s memoir chronicles the harrowing solo journey he made from El Salvador to the US at age nine.

In Alejandra Oliva’s new memoir, she describes how her body becomes an archive of migrants’ stories.

For example, it runs right through a detention center in Mississippi. 

Alvaro Enciso plants crosses where migrants have died, to keep them from disappearing into oblivion.

Pretending we don't expect something gets us off the hook for not being prepared.

Pablo Cruz and Julie Collazo tell a story from the migrant detention crisis.

A Laredo pastor and his family are hard at work helping others, on both sides of the border.

Trump’s new policies are creating confusion and misery.

The children here are gaunt and listless. They are running out of time.

At the border, survivors of violence present their scarred bodies as testimony.

A student of mine went to Tijuana to help. She found she could help the most simply by paying attention.

What does it mean to worship in the middle of a wound?

The border wall means a lot to Trump. It means very little for public policy.

When Francisco Cantú took a job as a border patrol agent, he didn’t consider the cost to his humanity.