By Melissa Villa-Nicholas, author of Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry around Immigrants
Around 2018, I started to read reports about increasing information technology surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico border and around the U.S. to assist in immigration detention a...
By Ana Muñiz, author of Borderland Circuitry: Immigration Surveillance in the United States and Beyond
The passage below is an adapted excerpt from Borderland Circuitry.
I’ve loved the land for as long as I can remember. I grew up in the Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona, a stunnin...
By Laura Briggs, author of Taking Children: A History of American Terror
On August 14, 2020, a US government watchdog agency found that the top two leaders of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were unlawfully serving in their roles. President Trump, afraid that Chad Wolf and Ke...
Days after taking the White House, Donald Trump signed three executive orders—these authorized the Muslim Ban, the border wall, and ICE raids. These orders would define his administration’s xenophobic, racist, ableist, and patriarchal approach toward non-citizens. By all accounts, he embo...
By Jana K. Lipman, author of In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates
On World Refugee Day, the UNHCR estimates that there are over 25 million refugees around the world. Although the United States has always accepted refugees selectively based on its politica...
On Wednesday, August 7th, 2019, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted the single largest day of raids on undocumented workers in the nation’s history.
Decried as merely the latest act of needless cruelty inflicted upon the communities of Latin American...