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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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Get to Know We Are Alight With no end in sight of this COVID pandemic, and with no let up on the restrictions for border crossing first imposed by Trump, and still in place under the Biden Administration, one wonders what is happening to migrants who are arriving at...
A successful holiday campaign thanks!
The Board of Directors for Women on the Border thanks all of those who donated to our migrant rent assistance campaign at the 2021 holiday season. We said any amount helps. We reached the goal of $3,000 and mailed $500 checks to landlords on behalf of six...
AUSTIN’S WOMEN AND FAIR TRADE FESTIVAL 2021
Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera is hosting the Women and Fair Trade Festival on Saturday, Nov. 20, from 10 am till 6 pm. This event offers Austin area shoppers an opportunity to support women's cooperatives from around the world by purchasing beautiful, colorful,...
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Houston Is Testing Whether Trump’s ICE Is Above Texas Law
www.texasobserver.org
After the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, local authorities have struggled to stake their claim on an investigation into a killing within the most populous Texas city’s limits.
Breakneck pace in immigration courts is driving up deportation orders
apnews.com
The Trump administration is packing immigration courtrooms and giving less lead-time on hearings in an effort to clear a decades-long backlog.
ICE Detained Them, and Then They Vanished
www.themarshallproject.org
Under Trump, the U.S. increasingly sends immigrants all over the nation with little warning, leaving families and attorneys unsure where they are.