The president’s executive order meant to limit resettlement, but the West is opting for more.
Immigration
Posted inMarch 1, 2020: Predator (Mis)perceptions
Our detention system is bankrupting immigrants
As corporations cash in, mixed-status families are thrown into deep poverty.
Posted inFebruary 1, 2020: How One Woman Took a Stand Against Tribal Disenrollment and Paid For It
A particular kind of immigrant journey
Tope Folarin’s coming-of-age story recounts the transformations of a Nigerian-American family in Utah.
Posted inFebruary 1, 2020: How One Woman Took a Stand Against Tribal Disenrollment and Paid For It
Why the University of California is fighting for DACA
From a campus legal clinic all the way to the Supreme Court, UC stands up for Dreamers.
Posted inFebruary 1, 2020: How One Woman Took a Stand Against Tribal Disenrollment and Paid For It
Only in death do some deported veterans return home
Military service comes with no guarantees of citizenship.
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Trump’s border wall threatens fish species
The U.S. is skirting conservation laws and withdrawing millions of gallons of groundwater.
Posted inDecember 9, 2019: Crossing to Safety
Migrant labor activists win lawsuit for foreign shepherds
Ranchers must now bring in immigrant sheepherders under permanent visas.
Posted inDecember 9, 2019: Crossing to Safety
What the cowboy hat says about ‘Americanism’
A problematic symbol of the West gets a reboot.
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Spokane vs. the Border Patrol
How immigration agents stake out a city bus station.
Posted inDecember 9, 2019: Crossing to Safety
When post-9/11 racism haunts an American family
In Laila Lalami’s new book, a Moroccan-American family seeks a sense of belonging in California.
Posted inDecember 9, 2019: Party Favors
The penetrable wall; baffling thievery; unretiring outdoors
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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Scott Warren reflects on the Borderlands
After two years of federal prosecution the humanitarian aid worker was acquitted in November.
Posted inDecember 9, 2019: Crossing to Safety
Undocumented farmworkers could get citizenship from a new bill in Congress
A United Farm Worker organizer reveals the political strategy behind the scenes.
Posted inDecember 9, 2019: Party Favors
‘This is a human tragedy and an ecological tragedy’
At a protest in Organ Pipe, border communities fight Trump’s wall.
Posted inDecember 9, 2019: Crossing to Safety
To find Jose Montelongo, ICE agents targeted his whole family
One family’s ordeal under Trump’s zero tolerance immigration tactics.
Posted inNovember 11, 2019: Storied Landscapes
The case against immigration prisons
Law professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández analyzes why America puts so many immigrants behind bars.
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BLM head: ‘What I thought, what I wrote, what I did in the past is irrelevant.’
Acting BLM Director William Perry Pendley won’t answer questions about his history of climate denial or denigrating immigrants at environmental journalism conference.
Posted inNovember 25, 2019: Forever Mines
Refugees look for belonging in Idaho
The Twin Falls resettlement program continues to thrive in the face of recent serious challenges.
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When 911 feels like a ticket to deportation, undocumented workers turn to a local nonprofit
Policy shifts leave at-risk workers looking for help in other places.
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Border wall construction in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is a travesty
The barrier divides the monument and nearby wildlife refuges.