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2017
6 stories published
Vice
June 21, 2017
One Widow's Quest to Make Border Patrol Pay for Killing Her Husband
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.
Vice
May 31, 2017
The Immigrant Crackdown Is a Cash Cow for Private Prisons
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 he will be leaving his position to work at GEO...
Al Jazeera English
April 30, 2017
Juarez is waiting for you': Violent city tries tourism
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, Richard Wright, a native of El Paso, Texas, began crossing...
Narratively
March 19, 2017
This Formerly Undocumented Woman Is Teaching Her Fellow Immigrants to Know Their Rights
My analyst and I grew more intimately connected each week of treatment...but I never saw this indecent proposal coming. It’s the waning moments of my fourth session with a new therapist.
Vice
February 13, 2017
Families Are Reuniting with Their Deported Loved Ones in the Middle of the Rio Grande
Last week, 22-year-old Denise Gomez and her mother waded into the Rio Grande River, straddling the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico. Their feet were wrapped in trash bags as they crossed through the cold, shallow water to...
Al Jazeera English
February 9, 2017
Voices from the border: Opposing Trump's wall
On Wednesday, John F Kelly, the head of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the department tasked with implementing President Donald Trump's immigration policy, laid out the administration's vision before Congress.