Immigration

“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.

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On the Border Watch List: A Podcast Interview with Erika Pinheiro on the Chilling Impact of Surveillance

Al Otro Lado’s Tijuana-based litigation and policy director examines the border, past, present, and future, through the lens of the invasive and futuristic surveillance apparatus that is already here.

“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.

Driving While Brown: The Rise of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Latino Resistance That Defeated Him

A Q&A with journalists Jude Joffe-Block and Terry Greene Sterling on their new book chronicling Arizona's anti-immigrant movement.

Nogales Is an “Invisible Refugee Camp”

The Biden administration's use of Title 42, rooted in the longstanding deterrence strategy, leaves asylum seekers in the same dangerous, inhumane circumstances as ‘Remain in Mexico,’ but without hope

A New Migrant Resource Center in Sonoyta Reflects the Reality That Asylum Seekers Could Remain in Mexican Border Cities for the Long Term
On America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants: A Podcast with César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández on the Politics of Immigration and the Road Ahead in 2022

The legal scholar and author of "Crimmigration Law" and "Migrating to Prison" on immigration detention reform, midterm elections, and what he’s watching for in 2022.

A Q&A with Ariel Ruiz Soto from the Migration Policy Institute on Central America

Ruiz Soto talks about a new region-wide survey on Central American migration and why people choose to migrate or stay home.

The Most Beautiful Place in the World: An Audio Interview with Isabel Garcia about What the Border Could Be

Southern Arizona’s legendary human rights champion rates the Biden administration’s first year at the border and suggests the time has come for a “quiet revolution.”

A Q&A with Carlos Spector, El Paso Immigration Attorney and Human Rights Defender

Spector, who specializes in Mexican asylum cases, said he expects more human rights defenders will request asylum after border opens this month to people with travel visas.

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