Human beings fleeing persecution are not a “flood” or “surge.” And it’s not “illegal” when they cross the border to seek asylum.
Retire This Dehumanizing Language About Immigrants
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U.S.-Mexico Border
The Cruel, Twisted Fantasies of Border War Enthusiasts
The U.S. legacy along the U.S.-Mexico frontier is one of indiscriminate and often gender-based violence — and it shows up again and again in Trump’s language.
Don’t Sacrifice Border Communities for Political Gain
Trump’s threats to shut down the southern border would hurt the interconnected communities along it.
No Happy Ending to the Child Refugee Crisis
The Obama administration is making it harder for Central Americans to get refugee status.
America’s Border Fascism
Border Patrol practices have created extensive “constitution-free zones” where civil liberties are routinely infringed.
Our Osmotic Border
In the U.S. immigration debate, we have thus far focused our attention on the symptom—Mexicans crossing the semi-permeable barrier into the United States—and treated the crossing itself as the problem to be solved. In other words, policy makers have been preoccupied with figuring out how to make the border less permeable. But this is a fool’s errand. It’s time to start looking at the pressures that drive unidirectional movement instead of at the symptom.
Napolitano in Texas: Tough Talk, Little Coherence
The Obama administration has unconditionally adopted the Calderon government position that together they are winning the drug war and all that´s needed is to stay the course. Both governments avidly support militarization of the border and of Mexico as the means to confront organized crime. Both governments write off human rights concerns and the bloodshed that the war on drugs has caused as a necessary cost.