For years, Flores has served as an immigration policy advisor to Democrats at the national level, including President Biden. She talks about what went wrong, and what Democrats should be doing now.
Earlier this month the Mexican military killed six migrants in Chiapas. Behind this is the militarization of Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala, done with support and pressure from the U.S.
“The real crisis at the U.S. southern border is not the people coming across, but the hardening of the human heart,” says the author of CROSSING THE LINE.
Today's border has "surveillance towers littering the landscape, militarized personnel [everywhere], miles of formidable walls. Gatekeeper played a huge role in bringing about this dystopian reality."
In this interview reprinted with permission from Yale Climate Connections, The Border Chronicle's Todd Miller talks about the role climate change plays in migration to the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Center for Biological Diversity’s conservation advocate talks about a military attempt to increase supersonic flights and trainings in the borderlands and how the public still has time to comment.
Border nonprofits say contractor, My Bright Horizon, left brochures, but didn’t say it was part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s anti-immigrant "relocation" initiative.
September 11 brought heavy-handed border enforcement into a new, ever more dystopian era. It is not only a legacy, but has also become a 21st-century recipe for security.
