EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SARA PHALEN is based in West Chicago, Illinois. She first connected to Women on the Border in 2005 on an NIU law student delegation as part of a course on women and globalization designed by then director and professor Arriola. She became a Board...
COVID-19 As a Threat to Immigrants In Detention In late March, 2020 an immigration jail detainee tested positive for the deadly Corona Virus (COVID-19) at a New Jersey jail. Shortly following this confirmed case the ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of immigrants in...
COMMENTARY: The border, migrant laborers, the maquiladoras and now ICE jails and deportation. Why hasn’t the discourse on immigration reform ever taken into account how NAFTA produced waves of migration to the U.S.? Or how CAFTA created maquiladora jobs but did...
Connecting the Dots: How Trade Policy and Immigration Intersect Posted on December 10, 2019 by ELVIA Journey of an Immigrant Delegation, WOB and ATCF, May 2012. The bizzare construction of border walls that hurt residents, migrants and wlldlife. COMMENT The border,...
Donald Trump has managed to get his border wall argues journalist for the Los Angeles Times Rachel Morris in her article entitled “Trump Got His Border Wall After All.” Morris’ article provides an in-depth look at the U.S. attitudes towards migrants,...
