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Border enforcement and free-trade policies directly affect the lives of working people and immigrants. Researchers, advocates, and activists for human rights can find history and resources on this site.
Women and Globalization
Exploitation in global factories has led women workers to fight for fair wages and empower themselves through fair trade networks.
Reimagining the Border
With social critique and humor artists and activists reimagine human relationships along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Immigration and Detention
Women on the Border offers resources for the struggle to uphold the human rights of migrants and the undocumented.
Our History
Women on the Border was founded in 2001 to support the empowerment of women working in the NAFTA factories (maquiladoras) at the U.S.-Mexico border.
In recent years, as U.S. policy has become more hostile than ever to migrants, workers, and people of color, Women on the Border has sought to promote scholarship and activism calling for freedom, justice and human dignity.
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Sifting Through the Chaos, Revised 2/2026
The impact of escalating and militarized ICE raids, threats to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, and the loss of respect for the US on a global stage, is overwhelming. What is happening? Where should we look for trustworthy news and in-depth analysis in these...
Grassroots Resistance Organizing Against ICE Attacks
Before they took his cell phone, Joseph* called his wife. He had been arrested by ICE agents just as he was dropping off their two daughters at school. He didn’t know what would happen or how long it would all take. The ICE agents didn’t care that he had been...
Opposition to ICE emerges nationwide
Updated/1/28/2026 - On the morning of Jan. 26, a second U.S. citizen, 37 year-old Alex Pretti was fatally shot at a protest in Minneapolis by ICE agents. Click here to read details of the deadly encounter. THE NATION MOBILIZES AGAINST I.C.E. TERROR by Elvia R....
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An artist brought 'I.C.E. pops' to a Texas campus. The show was shut down in days
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The Trump administration's executive orders have meant that administrators are questioning what art can — and can't — be seen on campus.
Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers
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Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.
A new ICE facility could speed up deportations for families and kids
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The Trump administration plans to open a 528-bed holding center for migrant families and unaccompanied children awaiting removal from the U.S., putting it next to a Louisiana airfield that has become ...