June 18, 2020. In an historic 5-4 decision the United States Supreme Court ruled today that the Trump administration’s effort in 2017 to terminate the program known as DACA violated the law. From the Opinion in Dept. of Homeland Security v. Regents of Univ. of...
Join us to hear home communities have been responding to immigrant issues duringn COVID-19 Posted by WOMEN ON THE BORDER on Thursday, April 30, 2020 Speakers for Public Chat on issues of the lawsuits against ICE for failing to abide by Covid-19 CDC Guidelines and from...
ONLINE PUBLIC CHAT — THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2020 7:00 PM CST Board members in Texas and Illinois, plus immigrant activists in West Chicago invite listeners for a conversation about the impact of Covid-19 on migrants, detainees and the immigrant community, Thursday,...
REIMAGINING THE BORDER — VOICES AT THE BORDER Common Ground Voices/La Frontera creates community music projects in collaboration with refugee shelters at the Mexico-US border. Their recent project DOS CUERPOS is available on YouTube. WHAT IS COMMON GROUND...
JESS CHAPIN has a long history of academic research and activism around the struggles of women, immigrants and gender minorities on the U.S.-Mexico border and within in the U.S. Her doctoral work for a PhD in cultural anthropology addressed issues of gender and...
DONNA HOFFMAN is a communication and community organizing professional with other thirty years’ experience in the non-profit sector. As Communications Coordinator for the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, she produced over 30 press events, wrote or edited over 200...