Legal or not, Trump’s wall is already being built
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What you need to know about construction currently happening on the border. Continue Reading
Why do border deaths persist when the number of crossings is falling?
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Government policies funneling illegal immigrants into more dangerous crossing areas have contributed to fatalities. Continue Reading
With visa renewal denied, border journalist says farewell to Las Cruces
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I recently disappeared from Las Cruces and the airwaves. Here’s why. Continue Reading
Farewell to an extraordinary border journalist
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Marisela Ortega Lozano, who died earlier this month, is one of the unsung heroines of border journalism. Continue Reading
Relatives of undocumented children caught up in ICE dragnet
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In a shift from how it operated during the Obama administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is cracking down on relatives who let undocumented kids stay with them after entering the U.S. Continue Reading
A proposal to protect Dreamers and other immigrants from deportation
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The REUNION Act would protect Dreamers, parents of Americans, and other undocumented individuals by creating a five-year statute of limitations on deportation. Continue Reading
Will Trump kill the dream for these immigrants?
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With the president reportedly at the point of canceling DACA, some of its 800,000 beneficiaries describe what they gained — and now fear losing — from the program. Continue Reading
Trump inspires a ‘green and brown coalition’ in the borderlands
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President Donald Trump’s border policies and proposals are stirring a new convergence of forces. Continue Reading
Colonias on the border struggle with decades-old water issues
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As of 2015, an estimated 30 percent of colonia residents didn’t have access to safe, clean drinking water. Continue Reading
With the number of seniors growing, the U.S. stumbles toward a day of reckoning
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The number of U.S. seniors will nearly double from 41.2 million in 2010 to 81.2 million in 2040. Continue Reading
They got hurt at work. Then they got deported.
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How insurance companies use a Florida law to get undocumented immigrants arrested and deported when they get injured on the job — and what it means in Trump’s America. Continue Reading
The borderlands are three states, two nations, one people
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I don’t see how militarization and hard lines have ever made people here safer. Continue Reading
Border agency set to jumpstart Trump’s wall in a Texas wildlife refuge
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Customs and Border Protection indicates it will use its own funds to build 3-mile segment of wall amid one of the nation’s most cherished bird-watching locales. Continue Reading
A border wall would be oppressive, even on our side
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The divisiveness Trump’s border wall symbolizes is deeply felt in the borderlands. Continue Reading
ICE officers told to take action against all undocumented immigrants encountered while on duty
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A directive from the head of ICE’s enforcement unit appears to push for tougher action than the Trump administration has publicly promised. Continue Reading