In the News: Immigration. Unaccompanied minors. Terrible holding facilities. Overstays in detention. COVID. Asylum seekers. Families being sent back. Smugglers. It‘s all so confusing. As you hear journalists describing the problems at the border do you find...
A NOTE OF THANKS: In Fall 2020, Women on the Border launched an emergency relief campaign for a teenager migrant from Guinea, a country in West Africa. Mamadou is here legally as a refugee. The bit of financial help he received was put to good use. Below is an...
Reaching Out to One of the Co-Founders of Women on the Border. I met Josefina Castillo when she was the Director of the Austin chapter of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). The AFSC is the social justice arm of the Quakers. A few months after I published...
Below is the text of the poem delivered by Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman at the inauguration of Joseph R. Biden as the 46th President of the United States. When day comes we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade? The loss we carry, a...
IMPEACHMENT v. 25TH AMENDMENT –WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE? By Donna J. Blevins and Elvia R. Arriola, Members of the Women on the Border Board of Directors On January 6, 2021, the nation witnessed an attack on the Capitol grounds by insurrectionists incited by President...
