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Exploitation in global factories has led women workers to fight for fair wages and empower themselves through fair trade networks.
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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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Immigration Detention
IMMIGRATION ABCs Immigrant Detention Immigrant detention has greatly expanded since 2014. A surge in unaccompanied minors during the Obama administration led to a policy of using detention, including family detention, as a way to deter people from coming to the US. ...
Asylum Seeker
IMMIGRATION ABCs Asylum Seeker Asylum seekers come to the US fleeing danger in their home countries. In recent years, most people seeking asylum in the US have come from the Northern Triangle of Central America, which includes Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. ...
Why So Many Migrants from Central America?
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY MIGRANTS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA? Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras rank high in problems of systemic violence that has produced massive instability and pressure on thousands of citizens to leave home. Migrants report either having been the...
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An artist brought 'I.C.E. pops' to a Texas campus. The show was shut down in days
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The Trump administration's executive orders have meant that administrators are questioning what art can — and can't — be seen on campus.
Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers
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Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.
A new ICE facility could speed up deportations for families and kids
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The Trump administration plans to open a 528-bed holding center for migrant families and unaccompanied children awaiting removal from the U.S., putting it next to a Louisiana airfield that has become ...