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  • Alambrista and the U.S.-Mexico Border: Film, Music andStories of Undocumented Immigrants

    In Alambrista and the U.S.-Mexico Border, editors Nicholas J. Cull and David Carrasco describe the making of the 1977 movie Alambrista, which explored the lives of undocumented migrant workers

    by Staff, May 16, 2005

  • Border restoration’s odd couple

    In southwestern Arizona, the U.S. Border Patrol is working with Cocopah Indians and environmentalists to restore a degraded, crime-ridden wetland called Hunters Hole.

    by Morgan Heim, Sep 03, 2007

  • British writer tackles border politics

    British author Bella Pollen’s new novel, Midnight Cactus, looks at Arizona’s border issues through the eyes of an upper-class English newcomer who has left her executive husband and sought refuge in a ghost town.

    by Julie Foster, May 14, 2007

  • The Immigrant's Trail

    This special issue of High Country News takes an on-the-ground look at the human landscape of illegal immigration in the West

    by Jonathan Thompson, May 15, 2006
  • The way it is for some people

    The way it is for some people

    Life on the other side of the border is hard, even for dentists.

    by Jack McGarvey, Oct 14, 2010

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