Results for keyword: Immigrants
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Nuestra America
In Translation Nation, Hector Tobar looks at the new Latino immigrants and examines the way the immigration experience has changed in America
by Mark E Hayes, Jun 26, 2006 -
Fencing off Mexico is an ecological blunder
The writer calls the fence on our southern border an ecological nightmare
by Gary Wockner, Jun 05, 2006 -
A silent victim of illegal immigration is our public lands
The writer says we fail to count the costs of illegal border crossers to our public lands
by Rebecca Clarren, May 22, 2006 -
Finding hope in a new land
Farmworker’s Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America is the story of Rose Castillo Guilbault’s childhood journey from Mexico’s Sonoran Desert to a new life in California’s Salinas Valley
by Stephen J. Lyons, May 15, 2006 -
Hope
After 16 years of living in the shadows in Pasco, Wash., Wendy and Erendira Santana finally win legal residency
by Melissa Hoyos, May 15, 2006 -
Contradiction
Once in the U.S., immigrants find themselves in a land of contradictions, facing an uncertain welcome, sometimes even from other Latinos
by Jonathan Thompson, May 15, 2006 -
Apprehension
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Officer John Schaefer is one of only two officers patrolling the 860,000 acres of Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, a thoroughfare for illegal immigrants and armed drug smugglers
by Michael Marizco, May 15, 2006 -
Perseverance
Illegal border crossers face a dangerous journey filled with heat, dust, flies and thirst, and always the danger of capture and deportation
by Michael Marizco, May 15, 2006 -
Abandonment
Small Mexican farming towns such as Francisco Villa in Sonora are emptied of their young men when the lack of good-paying local jobs sends them north of the border
by Michael Marizco, May 15, 2006 -
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
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