SAMUEL N GILBERT

‘Juarez in a bottle’: Mexican moonshine made with snakes resurfaces in US

The Guardian
When the US banned alcohol production and importation in 1920, spirits from Mexico began illegally crossing the border. Alongside mass quantities of tequila was the lesser-known sotol: a north Mexican
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He relives it all again’: the lasting impact of detention on immigrant children

The Guardian

A US federal judge on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s request to allow long-term detention of illegal immigrant children, a key part of President Donald Trump’s executive order to end

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The lasting impact of detention on immigrant children: ‘He relives it all again’

The Guardian
The first memory Hilda Ramírez has of the United States is the sound of helicopters. Four years ago, she, her eight-year-old son, Ivan, and five other migrants from Central America
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The treasure hunters on a deadly quest for an eccentric’s $2m bounty

The Guardian
Sacha Johnston was inching along a dirt road in a narrow canyon in northern New Mexico. “Just guide me,” Johnston said to her search partner, Cory Napier, who directed Johnston
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The Man Who Helped Design a 10,000-Year Nuclear Waste Site Marker

Motherboard
This story appears in VICE magazine's Dystopia and Utopia Issue. Click HERE to subscribe to VICE magazine. At first, Jon Lomberg thought it was a joke. When the late Carl
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Frito Pie-Eyed

New Mexico Magazine
IT ARRIVED IN A SMALL yellow bag, cut open lengthwise, with piping-hot red chile, ground beef, and beans poured directly over the corn chips inside, all topped with diced onions,
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One Widow’s Quest to Make Border Patrol Pay for Killing Her Husband

Vice

On May 31, 2010, Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas, an undocumented immigrant and longtime resident of San Diego, died after being beaten and tased by US Customs and Border Protection agents.

He was

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Juarez is waiting for you’: Violent city tries tourism

Al Jazeera English
Despite a rise in killings, the Mexican city has taken on a daunting task - to reinvent itself as a tourist destination. Ciudad Juarez, Mexico - In the early 1970s,
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The Immigrant Crackdown Is a Cash Cow for Private Prisons

VICE
An inmate in a GEO-run prison in California in 2013. Photo byJohn Moore/Getty Images Earlier this month Daniel Ragsdale, the second-in-command at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE), confirmed
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