Migrants Face State Violence on Both Sides of the Border
By Brad Wolf In one of the most violent cities in the Western hemisphere, we meet with immigrants in a shelter trying to make their way to safety in the United States. Reynosa, Mexico is…
April 2024
How I Became a Migrant Trafficker in Mexico
By Belén Fernández In February 2024, far-right American activist and white nationalist Laura Loomer—whom former United States president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump once praised as “really very special”—descended upon Panama for a weeklong…
What Does It Take to Organize Immigrant
Workers in the South? By FLOC Media At 7:30 a.m. workers begin filing into the large tin building, surrounded by heavy machinery and pallets stacked high. Tucked away amongst sweet potato farms in rural North…
New ‘Independent Contractor ’ Rule
By Jessica Corbett Democrats in Congress and unions were among those applauding in early January as the U.S. Department of Labor announced its final rule to provide guidance on when employers can treat workers as…
Garment Workers Take on Wage Theft and Wall Street
By Jacob Horwitz Dilhani worked for six years in a Sri Lankan factory that makes clothes for Nike. She is one of millions of South and Southeast Asian garment workers in Big Fashion companies’ supply…
Underground Seed Banks Hold Promise for
Ecological Restoration By Josephine Woolington In 2000, Sam Lea converted his once-productive Willamette Valley onion field back into wetlands. The third-generation Oregon farmer excavated several ponds and largely left the land alone. Soon, willows arrived…
A Ship Crashed Into a Baltimore Bridge… and
Demolished Lies About Immigration Commentary by Will Bunch From the day in the mid-2000s when a then-20-year-old Maynor Yassir Suazo Sandoval crossed the border into America, he never stopped working. The youngest of eight children,…
The Root Cause of Central American Migration
Is U.S. Imperialism By Suyapa Portillo Villeda and Miguel Tinker Salas When we first heard about Vice President Kamala Harris’s plan to address the “root causes” of migration in Central America and Mexico, we thought…
Climate Change Is Fueling Global Migration
The world isn’t ready yet to meet people’s changing needs By Julie Watson TIJUANA, Mexico (AP)—Worsening climate largely from the burning of coal and gas is uprooting millions of people, with wildfires overrunning towns in…
Biden Vowed to Reform Immigration Detention
Instead, Private Prisons Benefited By Ted Hesson, Mica Rosenberg and Kristina Cooke PHILIPSBURG, Pennsylvania, Aug 7 (Reuters)—As a presidential candidate in 2020, Joe Biden pledged to end for-profit immigration detention, saying: “No business should profit…