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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.
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Women on the Border offers resources for the struggle to uphold the human rights of migrants and the undocumented.
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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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Help NGOs targeted for providing aid to immigrants and refugees
On the day of his inauguration President Trump signed several executive orders including one that targeted non-governmental organizations providing any kind of aid to undocumented individuals. Federal courts have ordered the Trump administration to resume funding for...
Help the organizations impacted by the current freeze on refugee aid
The following is an important plea for help from Austin Jews and Partners for Refugees. Dear Friends! Because funds for all federally-funded refugee services are either shut off or continue to be indefinitely frozen, refugee agencies in Central Texas have now been...
The Border Chronicle: An Excellent Source for Reporting on the Border
The Border Chronicle, an email newsletter on Substack, is an excellent source of up-to-date news and analysis about the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. It is produced by long-time border journalists Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller, who are currently working out of Tucson,...
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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.