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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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Follow the Money – Profiting from the Inhumanity of Trump’s Mass Deportation Programs.

by Elvia Arriola | Oct 16, 2026 | Migrants and Human Rights

Follow the Money -- Profiting from the Inhumanity of Trump's Mass Deportation Programs by Elvia Rosales Arriola*** Stephen Miller, the key figure behind the current mass deportation policies is the descendant of immigrants. So is his boss, the president. But their...

ICE TERRORISM PERSISTS

by Elvia Arriola | Sep 4, 2026 | Migrants and Human Rights

There aren't any other words to describe the humanitarian consequences of Mr. Trump's anti-immigrant campaign launched after he took over the Oval office in January 2025. It is terrorism legitimated by a country in the grips of a fascistic mindset: At all costs...

Sifting Through the Chaos, Revised 2/2026

by Jess Chapin | Feb 4, 2026 | Migrants and Human Rights

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...

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ABOLISH THE TERRORIST GROUP CALLED ICEwww.facebook.com/share/1ddfsiLJaE/?mibextid=wwXIfrBREAKING🚨 ICE locked up a Dallas dad WITH A GREEN CARD for 4 months. Now he's DEAD.Before he died, he told his daughter he couldn't breathe.Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias, 56, was found unresponsive in his bed during a “security check” at an ICE detention center in Laredo, Texas.He lived in Dallas for decades, painting apartments and townhomes for a living and raising three children, all born in the U.S.In June, he was detained while returning from Mexico by bus.He had diabetes, high blood pressure and a heart condition. He had his medications with him, but his daughter says detention staff REFUSED to give them to him.He developed a cough, had trouble breathing and felt tightness in his chest. He told his daughter the medical staff “would just ignore him.”“He lost weight because he didn't look the same as when we were doing the video calls with him,” his daughter told The Texas Tribune.And when he died, his family didn't even hear it from ICE. They never contacted the family.His daughter says they learned he was dead from the county medical examiner.If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here. ...

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www.facebook.com/share/1CYJGJ45EA/?mibextid=wwXIfrBREAKING🚨 A 78-year-old priest was just released from ICE custody—but he could no longer walk, so two other detainees had to carry him out.Edward Nalwamba, a retired Anglican priest, has lived in Colorado for more than two decades. A federal judge's order forced ICE to release him from their privately run detention center in Aurora.But he could not walk out, he was too weak.Staff brought him toward the exit in a wheelchair, then refused to let him take it past the gate, he told CBS Colorado. Two other men who were being released that day picked him up and carried him to a friend's truck. "They just hoisted me in their hands and began walking with me half a mile up to the vehicle," he said.Senator John Hickenlooper's staff had visited the jail that same day and asked the company that runs it, GEO Group, for two things: a wheelchair to get him to his ride and a phone call to his caretakers. "GEO staff assured us they would do both. They failed to deliver on either," Hickenlooper wrote. "No phone call. No wheelchair. No human decency."When ICE arrested him in September 2025, his lawyer says, he was a healthy man who exercised and could do 15 to 20 push-ups. He worked as a home health aide, caring for men with developmental disabilities.In detention he caught pneumonia, lost more than 30 pounds and ended up in a wheelchair. He says that each of the three times he was taken to see a doctor, he was shackled at the feet, hands and waist."Even in the Third World, we don't do that to people," he told the Denver Post. "And the leader of the world does that to human beings?"DHS called the judge who freed him an "activist judge" and says people in ICE custody get comprehensive medical care."I am back to where I was when they first arrested me," he said. "So I was asking myself, 'Why did they arrest me in the first place?'"If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here. ...

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ABOLISH I.C.E. www.facebook.com/share/1CYJGJ45EA/?mibextid=wwXIfrBREAKING🚨 A 78-year-old priest was just released from ICE custody—but he could no longer walk, so two other detainees had to carry him out.Edward Nalwamba, a retired Anglican priest, has lived in Colorado for more than two decades. A federal judge's order forced ICE to release him from their privately run detention center in Aurora.But he could not walk out, he was too weak.Staff brought him toward the exit in a wheelchair, then refused to let him take it past the gate, he told CBS Colorado. Two other men who were being released that day picked him up and carried him to a friend's truck. "They just hoisted me in their hands and began walking with me half a mile up to the vehicle," he said.Senator John Hickenlooper's staff had visited the jail that same day and asked the company that runs it, GEO Group, for two things: a wheelchair to get him to his ride and a phone call to his caretakers. "GEO staff assured us they would do both. They failed to deliver on either," Hickenlooper wrote. "No phone call. No wheelchair. No human decency."When ICE arrested him in September 2025, his lawyer says, he was a healthy man who exercised and could do 15 to 20 push-ups. He worked as a home health aide, caring for men with developmental disabilities.In detention he caught pneumonia, lost more than 30 pounds and ended up in a wheelchair. He says that each of the three times he was taken to see a doctor, he was shackled at the feet, hands and waist."Even in the Third World, we don't do that to people," he told the Denver Post. "And the leader of the world does that to human beings?"DHS called the judge who freed him an "activist judge" and says people in ICE custody get comprehensive medical care."I am back to where I was when they first arrested me," he said. "So I was asking myself, 'Why did they arrest me in the first place?'"If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here. ...

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