How YouTube is Promoting White Supremacy to Young Viewers: A Q&A with Shauna Siggelkow
"The 'Great Replacement' isn't new. It’s just that it's been packaged for the digital age in a very effective way."
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Where Does Justice Find its Limit? On Writing an Opera About Family Separation: A Q&A with Anna Deeny Morales
"I feel very different about this work than anything I’ve done before. It’s like an open wound."
The Things They Carried: Is the Border Patrol discarding asylum seekers’ documents?
In Arizona and Texas, border residents are noticing more and more personal belongings left behind, including confidential documents, along the U.S. side of the border wall.
Reporter’s Notebook: A Man and his Rake Against Anti-Immigrant Hate in Yuma, Arizona
The Border Chronicle visits with Fernando “Fernie” Quiroz, director of the AZ-CA Humanitarian Coalition that provides aid to asylum seekers in Yuma
Acts of Resistance and Faith: An Interview with the Rev. John Fife on Founding the Sanctuary Movement, and the Ongoing Struggle for Human Rights in the Borderlands
"Climate change will be the first time we realize that nation states can't solve this problem by themselves."
The Border Patrol Union Leads the Charge on Title 42 Misinformation
With so much misinformation circulating about border and immigration policies, it doesn’t help to have Border Patrol union leaders stoking fear and white-supremacist conspiracy theories
It’s Not Aiding and Abetting, It’s Humanitarian Aid: A Q&A with Eddie Canales, founder of the South Texas Human Rights Center
For nearly a decade, Eddie Canales has worked to save lives and identify missing migrants along the Texas-Mexico border. In 2013, Canales opened the South Texas Human Rights Center in the small ranching town of Falfurrias in rural Brooks County.
On Challenging Racism, and Creating a New Narrative about Border and Immigrant Communities: A Podcast Interview with Linguist Otto Santa Ana
An expert in critical discourse analysis, Santa Ana is a professor emeritus at the University of California in Los Angeles, where he’s spent decades analyzing political speech and media representations of Latinos and immigrants.
“Humanitarians” with Guns
Meet the vigilante group, and QAnon conspiracy theorists, intercepting unaccompanied minors at the Arizona-Mexico Border, and the Border Patrol seems fine with it.
“A Hot Meal and a Little Hope”: Border Residents Step Up to Help Migrants
In the wake of mass deportations under Title 42, residents from Tucson to Sásabe, Sonora, have pooled their resources to found migrant resource centers in Mexican border towns.