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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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Trump’s First Two Weeks – A Summary
Trump’s First Two Weeks: A Recap from the U.S.-Mexico Border By MEGAN ROBINSON* The new administration’s aggressive policies on immigration, trade, and executive power are reshaping the U.S.-Mexico border—and sparking widespread upheaval. SUMMARY Since Donald J. Trump...
Preparing for the Worst
We know what he did the first time he was president. The first thing he did in 2017 was institute a Muslim travel ban. Then he ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to begin rounding up and deporting immigrants living in this country who can’t prove they...
Do we need to care about Project 2025?
In recent years, and especially during 2018-2020, this organization helped raise awareness and funds to aid immigrants seeking shelter or legal aid. Some of us on the Board volunteered to help migrants fill out asylum applications. They were temporary detainees at...
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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.