Immigration and Borderlands

National tragedy’: Trump begins border wall construction in Unesco reserve

The Guardian
In the face of protests by environmental groups, the wall will traverse the entirety of the southern edge of the monument. It is part of the 175 miles of barrier
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New brew: the Native American women upending craft beer

The Guardian
Nowhere is this consumer movement more apparent, and unique, than at Bow & Arrow brewery in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The first and only brewery in the US owned by Native
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Death sentence’: butterfly sanctuary to be bulldozed for Trump’s border wall

The Guardian
On any given day at the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, visitors can to see more than 60 varieties of butterflies. In the spring and fall, monarchsand other species
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‘Juárez 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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‘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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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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