In 2018 the U.S. Government introduced the Zero Tolerance Policy and told border patrol officials to separate children and even babies from legal asylum seeker parents. RAICES has produced a documentary, The Fight, in which they follow the civil rights lawyers who...
I wanted to point out the contradiction. This country purports itself to be a safe haven for LGBTQ people, but it routinely tortures and harasses trans and gender nonconforming migrants in detention. I had known about the case of someone named Roxsana Hernandez, a...
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...
