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Ana Gabriel recounts her trek in the caravan
Ana Gabriel | Issue: February | March 2019
They killed my husband and I was afraid that something will happen to my children. I saw about the caravan on television and I joined it.
Tania & Sandra: Two migrant women seeking a future for their children
Interview by Tribuno del Pueblo / People’s Tribune | Issue: February | March 2019
My name is Tania Lisette. I come from Honduras. I’m 22 years old. I’m Sandra and I come from El Salvador. I’m 24 years old.
Reinero – Fleeing violence
Reinero | Issue: February | March 2019
They tried to keep us from leaving Honduras. In México, there were buses. Everywhere is dangerous. Everything smells political to me.
Pedro: I left five daughters and my wife
Pedro | Issue: February | March 2019
I am from Guatemala – I joined in Chiquimula, both happy and sad. The majority is from Honduras, but also from Guatemala.
The America that can be
From the Editors | Issue: February | March 2019
Immigrants and U.S. workers face the same enemy: the capitalist class, whose only solution is to ‘divide and conquer.’
Shutdown: Government makes war on workers
From the Editors | Issue: February | March 2019
This shutdown is about the erosion of American democracy and the subversion of our most basic governmental norms. – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Reverend Dr. Beth Johnson: End the militarization of the border
Cathleen Williams, interviewer | Issue: February | March 2019
The Americans who approached the border on December 10, with their pastors, their ministers, their rabbis, imams, and religious leaders – had courage.
Taking a stand for refugee and and migrant rights
Rabbi Brant Rosen | Issue: February | March 2019
In December I traveled to the San Diego – Tijuana border where I had the honor of participating in “Love Knows No Borders”.
Love Knows No Borders: A moral call for migrant justice
Interview by Laura Garcia | Issue: February | March 2019
Interviews with participants in the march to the border. ‘Love Knows No Borders’ of December 10, 2018.
‘The migrants are fleeing violence and they’re met with violence’
Interview by Tribuno del Pueblo | Issue: February | March 2019
Estela Jiménez is one of the activists in San Diego, who has been organizing and collecting donations for the migrants in the Benito Juárez Sports Camp.
‘The only way he’s is coming home is in a body bag or in a coffin.’
Interview by Tribuno del Pueblo | Issue: February | March 2019
We help the guys connect with VA [Veterans Administration] benefits. We connect them with attorneys. We do the advocacy part to push legislation.
‘Hate words lead to hate actions’
Enrique Morones | Issue: February | March 2019
On December 15, Enrique Morones gave a warm welcome and a bit of history to volunteers who were bringing, sorting and loading cars with donations.
Interview with Pedro Ríos of AFSC: The wall will fall
Interview by Tribuno del Pueblo | Issue: February | March 2019
Pedro Ríos has worked with American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) for 15 years. He has been the director of the border program for 10 years.
The whole system is guilty
Gloria M. Sandoval | Issue: February | March 2019
ICE detention centers are present-day concentration camps. Corporations profit from human suffering.
Op-ed by a contributor from the Rio Grande Valley
José Torres | Issue: February | March 2019
We must not allow for a spokesman for the rich and a fascist to dictate to us what is good for this country.
Children and parents suffer from physical and emotional trauma from detention
From the Editors | Issue: February | March 2019
The American Academy of Pediatrics warned that the thousands of children detained for months, will face risks to physical and emotional wellbeing.
Government shutdown impacts immigrants fighting deportation proceedings
Press release by Northwestern Detention Center | Issue: February | March 2019
“ICE has been a terrorizing force in my family and continues to terrorize immigrant communities across the country.” stated Mora-Villalpando.
Why the exodus from Central America?
From the Editors | Issue: February | March 2019
The United States has played and still plays an active role in creating the conditions that force people to leave.
The Second Cooler
From the Editors | Issue: February | March 2019
The Second Cooler is a documentary about illegal immigration shot primarily in Alabama, Arizona, and northern Mexico.